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by Sheena Wellington

Sheena Wellington is a wonderful singer of Scots songs and ballads with a career spanning many years. In this fine collection there are her versions of several classics including Lady Nairne's "The Laird O' Cockpen" and Robert Burns' "Parcel O' Rogues". Her natural voice is particularly suited to singing unaccompanied and "The Fair Flooer O' Northumberland" and "Bonnie Susie Cleland" are among the highlights. There is, of course, "A Man's A Man" - Robert Burn's outstanding anthem which Sheena sung at the opening of the Scottish Parliament. On this CD there is the live recording from that emotional, momentous and magic occasion.

Musicians: Pete Clark, Neil Paterson, Ewen Sutherland.

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1.	Ae Fond Kiss
	This most beautiful of love songs was written by Robert Burns.....
2.	The Laird o' Cockpen
	Carolina Oliphant, the Lady Nairne () wrote these words to an old tune.......
3.	The Fair Flooer o' Northumberland
	The contrast between the outraged father and understanding mother is a joy...
4.	Ballad
	I heard Ewan playing "The Mountains of Pomeroy" as a slow air and remembered I had once known words to it...
5.	Bonnie Susie Cleland
	This ballad which appears to be a variant of Lady Maisry (Child 65) first appears in Willian Motherwell's collection.
6.	Ye Banks and Braes
	A Robert Burns classic
7.	The Earl of Errol
	Errol is on the rich farmland of the Carse of Gowrie some miles east of Perth.
8.	Partans In the Creel
	A tale where love doesn't quite blind the lass to her land's lack of willingness to work - and quite right too!
9.	Now Westlin Winds
	Remarkably this lyric was first composed, for Peggy Thomson, when Robert Burns was only 16 years old.
10.	Granny's Warning
	A cheeky little song learned from my grandmother.....
11.	My Son David
	I first heard this variant of Child 13 (Edward) from the singing of the immortal Jeannie Robertson.....
12.	It Was A' For Oor Rightfu King
	A rewriting of the chapbook ballad Mally Stewart C 1746.......
13.	Whaur Dae Ye Lie
	Karine Polwart, one of the finest singers in Scotland wrote this powerful and moving tribute.
14.	Thomas Muir of Huntershill
	Thomas Muir was one of the Scottish Martyrs, the members of Friends of the People who were tried for sedition before Lord Braxfield in August 1793 and sentenced to transportation to Australia.
15.	Parcel o' Rogues
	The 'parcel o' rogues' were the 31 Scottish commissioners who, in the teeth of the overwhelming opposition of the Scottish people, signed the Act of Union of 1707 which adjourned Scotland's Parliament for almost 300 years.
16.	A Man's A Man (For A' That).
	Thanks to the Scottish Parliament for permission to use this live recording and for agreeing all royalties from this track should go to CHAS(Children's Hospice Assoc of Scotland)