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2009-01-18T20:40:00.000Z

Thank you. I am glad someone has found it useful. It as a song that I always associate with the anti apartheid movement in Scotland. The song seems to get a new audience with each generation.

Here is a video of me playing the tune on penny whistle:

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Thanks for posting your translation of Freedom Com...

2009-01-16T18:22:00.000Z

Thanks for posting your translation of Freedom Come All ye. I agree it is an improvement on the Wikipedia entry.

I have enjoyed the Freedom Come All Ye for almost 50 years, since I first heard it on a Folkways
record entitled "Ding Dong Dollar ", a collection of anti-polaris and Republican songs issued in the early 1960s. I was able to get the drift of the song's meaning, although many of the Scots phrases eluded me. The whole album (which is now available on CD through Smithsonian Folkways) sparkles with wit, although specific bits of Scottish slang and references to 1960's people and events might
be a bit obscure, particularly to Americans.

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