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