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Description: | A seven page letter which Burns writes to his friend Cunningham replying to two of his letters and enclosing his first version of the song 'Ye flowery banks' (the Banks o Doon) and his version of an old Jacobite song both of which he included in Johnson's Musical Museum Vol 4. (letter no 441)
The song centers round the depressing but defiant allegiance of an old man who has seen seven sons die in the cause, which has broken their mother's heart.
The poem here is composed of four, four line verses which Burns has developed from an old Jacobite song 'Jamie'. This relates to King James VIII of Scotland and III of England as seen by the French where he was exiled and known as 'the Old Pretender'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1791-01-01 - 1791-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Letter of Robert Burns to Alexander Cunn | Go to resource |
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