Come O'er the Stream Charlie
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| "Come O'er the Stream Charlie" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Language | Scots |
| Published | 18th-century[1] |
| Genre | Revolutionary song |
"Come O'er the Stream Charlie" (aka "MacLean's Welcome") is a Scottish song whose theme is the welcome the Young Pretender would receive prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745. The words are attributed to James Hogg,[2] who said he adapted it from a Gaelic song.[3] It appears in Hogg's 1821 Jacobite Relics.[4]
Written well after the events it commemorates, it is not a genuine Jacobite song, as is the case with many others now considered in the "classic canon of Jacobite songs,"[5] most of which were songs "composed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were passed off as contemporary products of the Jacobite risings."[6]
