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Here’s a glorious rendition of Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
9/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhuH2K5yzw
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Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin
Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay,
But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin
Through the great glen o’ the warld the day…
—Hamish Henderson, “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”
in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 2021
8/10
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
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“The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” ☝️ is based on a 16th-century German folksong, “Streitlied zwischen Leben und Tod”. You can listen to Henderson’s poem being sung here by Alison McMorland
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAheJjneNV4
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