in Gaelic An Cnota Bán. A Scottish march. There are a number of different lyrics, including one by Robert Burns but I don't sing any of them and so they are not included here. A cockade was a ribbon in the shape of a rosette used as a decoration on hats, and thus was a convenient vehicle to display the wearer’s loyalties in much the same manner as a button or a bumper sticker nowadays. It was used especially as a uniform decoration and to mark irregular troops in the 18th century and various colors represented different loyalties. Jacobite Troops had no formal uniform. The white cockade on a blue bonnet became their emblem. It is said to have originated when Bonnie Prince Charlie picked a wild rose and pinned it to his hat. A white cockade was associated with Jacobite rebels in 1715 and again for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s uprising in 1745, in both Scotland and Ireland. It has been printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland and Breandán Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2. Several settings are printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle ... (1982). It was recorded by The Coppers, The Chieftans and others.