Tour Scotland Travel Video Robert Burns Night Song For January 25 2018

Tour Scotland video of a Burns Night song for January 25, 2018 on ancestry visit to Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Scotland, on January 25, 1759. He died in Dumfries, Scotland, on July 21, 1796. During his work collecting old Scottish songs, Burns came across the title of this song and created the words to go with it

By yon castle wa' at the close of the day,
I heard a man sing, tho his head it was grey,
And as he was singing, the tears doon came
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame

The Church is in ruins, the State is in jars,
Delusion, oppressions, and murderous wars,
We dare na weel sayl but we ken wha's to blame
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame
My seven braw sons for Jamie drew sword
But now I greet round their green beds in the yerd
It brak the sweet heart o my faithfu auld dame
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame
Now life is a burden that bows me down
Sin I tint my bairns, and he tint his crown
But till my last moments my words are the same
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame

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