Ye Jacobites By Name

Ye Jacobites by Name (Roud # 5517) is a traditional Scottish folk song which goes back to the Jacobite Risings in Scotland (1688–1746). While the original version simply attacked the Jacobites from a contemporaneous Whig point of view, Robert Burns rewrote it in around 1791 to give a version with a more general, humanist anti-war outlook. This is the version that most people know today.

The song was published in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum of 1792 (no. 371) and in James Hogg's Jacobite Reliques of 1817 (no. 34). It also appears in a collection of Scottish Songs entitled Personal Choice by Ewan MacColl. The tune is taken from "My Love's in Germany" by Hector Macneill.