Side One
A MAN'S A MAN
Roy: Vocal (chorus), Guitar
Ronnie: Vocal (solo), Guitar
A song by Robert Burns as meaningful today as it was when
written in the eighteenth century, and will continue to be so as
long as it is sung. A few of the words require translation:
gowd: gold, hodden: coarse woollen cloth, birkie: cocky little
man, coof: dunderhead, aboon: above, maunaf fa: must not try,
bear the gree: win the victory.
KATE DALRYMPLE
Roy: Vocal
Ronnie: Vocal
This tune will be immediately recognisable, especially to
devotees of BBC Radio's Scottish country dance programmes.
Although the tune remains popular, the words of the song seem to
have fallen from grace, but by including it on this disc we hope
we have done something to restore what after all is a very
amusing anecdote.
The song is followed by an instrumental called…
PETRONELLA
Roy: Whistle, Borann (double-tracked)
Ronnie: Harmonica, Bass Harmonica (double-tracked)
FAREWELL TAE TARWATHIE
Roy: Vocal, Zither Guitar, Flute (double-tracked)
Ronnie: Bass Harmonica
Scotland's tradition of the sea, ships and fishermen is captured
in this song from Aberdeenshire, an area undergoing many changes
at this lime due to a different kind of catch from the sea ...
oil. I wonder if this new treasure will inspire such grand songs
in the future.
SOUND THE PIBROCH
Roy: Vocal (chorus), Guitar
Ronnie: Vocal (solo), Guitar
Mrs. Norman Macleod, senior, wrote this song and it ranks as one
of the most popular and certainly one of the most spirited of
Jacobite songs. We count ourselves fortunate that we have been
invited to sing it by Mrs. Ellen Murray, a great-granddaughter
of the composer.
SCOTS WHA HAE
Roy: Vocal, Borann, Northumbrian Pipes (double-tracked)
Ronnie: Vocal, Borann
More words by Robert Burns set to the tune Hey Tuttie Taitie,
traditionally said to be the tune played at the march-past of
Robert Bruce's men at Bannockburn. I'll bet Bruce felt on that
day just such sentiments as are conveyed in the song.
Side Two
PEGGY GORDON
Roy: Vocal, Combolin
Ronnie: Combolin, Harmonica (double-tracked)
This is, quite simply, a beautiful song.
THE BLUEBELLS OF SCOTLAND
Roy: Vocal (chorus), Guitar
Ronnie: Vocal (solo), Guitar
One of the more maligned of Scottish love songs, but if it's
that bad, I wonder why most people in the English-speaking world
can sing you at least a wee bit of it.
I KNOW MY LOVE
Roy: Vocal (solo), Mandolin (bass)
Ronnie: Vocal (chorus), Mandolin, Harmonica
We are perfectly well aware that I Know My Love should be sung
by a woman, but no funny cracks please.
The song is followed by an instrumental called…
THE LARK IN THE MORNING
Roy: Mandolin (bass), Whistle (double-tracked)
Ronnie: Mandolin, Harmonica
WHERE TWO HAWKS FLY*
Roy: Northumbrian Pipes
Ronnie: Vocal
The subject of the song is in the Scottish border country, a
farmhouse standing on the site of an ancient fortress of the
Buccleuch family. The castle was once the centre of a thriving
community, but all that remains today is the keystone of the
original archway and part of the family crest set in stone, "...
the crescent moon", referred to in the song.
WESTERING HOME (Roberton)
Roy: Vocal (chorus), Guitar
Ronnie: Vocal (solo), Guitar
We don't like performing to any audience, whether with us in the
theatre or listening at home, without giving them the chance to join us in
a song. Here's one which must be known to everybody, so why not sit back,
relax, and shout your bloody head off.
All Trad. arr. The Corries except and * Ronnie Browne arr. The Corries
Recording Supervisor: ALLAN SPENCE
Photographer: Jim Brown 1972
