Carolina oliphant, famous scot, Charlie is my darling

Twas on a Monday morning,
Right early in the year
When Charlie came to our town
The young Chevalier.
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Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling,
Charlie is my darling, the young Chevalier.

And he came marching up the street,
The pipes played loud and clear,
And a' the folks cam' rinnin' out
To meet the Chevalier.
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Wi' highland bonnets on their heads
And claymores bright and clear,
They cam' to fight for Scotland's right
And the young Chevalier.
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They've left their bonnie highland hills,
Their wives and bairnies dear,
To draw the sword for Scotland's lord,
The young Chevalier.
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Oh, there were many beating hearts,
And mony a hope and fear,
And mony were the pray'rs put up,
For the young Chevalier.

This song was written by  Carolina Oliphant also known as Lady Nairne.  Her father and granfather had joined the 1745 Jacobite Rising.  She was named after Bonnie Prince Charlie.  Carolina being the feminist form of Charles.

In her day it was not appropriate for women of her social standing to publish poetry, and  so for a long time her works was published under the pen-name of Mrs Brogen of Brogan.  She even kept her writings secret from her husband. She was born in 1776 and died in 1845.

Chevalier-a French order of Knighthood

www.rampantscotland.com
maggiemahone1

Didn't lieutenant Uhuru sing this song once in the Ship's Mess on board the Enterprise?

I think it was an episode about a boy named Charlie who grew up all alone on an alien planet, and Capt. Kirk had to teach him about the birds and the bees.

That planet had to be from Mars!

maggiemahone1

Ok so I went to a Star Trek Episode Guide website (ain't the Internet great!?!) and the episode I am thinking of is titled "Charlie X" and is one of the first season episodes of the Original Series:

That just shows you, be careful of who you pick up on an alien planet. Wouldn't ya like to have powers like that for just a short space of time. Broken legs, disappearing acts, etc.

maggiemahone1

What they didn't tell you in the synopsis is that Charlie lost a tri-chess game with Spock, and when he did he became angry and melted the chess pieces. Just goes to show you that having special powers doesn't make you smarter!

Carolina Oliphant was an amazing woman. Scottish music, particularly owes her a great debt. She took lots of older songs, and changed some of the lyrics (the older ones were considered too 'lewd' for polite society!). She published those old folk songs, along with her own poetry - which kept the folk music in the public eye.

http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/bio/nairnela.html