Canzoni contro la guerra - La Brigata Lolli

51. SONG FOR YE, JACOBITES
(Trad. – Tri Yann an Naoned)
(1614)
Una canzone tradizionale scozzese dell'epoca della guerra permanente tra Scozia ed Inghilterra,
tra il XVI e il XVII secolo.
I Giacobiti erano i fautori del re Giacomo I Stuart di Scozia, e la canzone (il cui semplice
fischiettio poteva portare sulla forca di Edimburgo, come narrano le cronache), era un aria di
fronda che si opponeva a chi, per i propri interessi, aveva trasformato l'area di confine tra i due
stati in una terra di nessuno, in mano a bande sanguinarie.
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear.
Ye Jacobites by name,
Your fault I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame,
You will hear, you will hear!
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
What is right and what is wrang by the law, by the law
What is right and what is wrang by the law,
What is right and what is wrang
A short sword or a lang,
A weak arm or a strang
For to draw, for to draw,
A weak arm or a strang for to draw.
What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar,
What makes heroic strife famed afar
What makes heroic strife
To whet the assassin's knife
Or hunt a parent's life
With bloody war, bloody war,
Or hunt a parent's life with bloody war.
So let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state,
So let your schemes alone, in the state,
So let your schemes alone,
Adore the rising sun
And leave a man undone
to his fate, to his fate,
And leave a man undone to his fate.
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear.
Ye Jacobites by name,
Your fault I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame,