Both Sides the Tweed
Dick Gaughan * Track #10 On Handful of Earth
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- #4The World Turned Upside Down
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- #5The Snows They Melt the Soonest
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- #6Lough Erne / First Kiss at Parting
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- #7Scojun Waltz / Randers Hopsa
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- #8Song for Ireland
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- #9Workers’ Song
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- #10Both Sides the Tweed
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Both Sides the Tweed by Dick Gaughan
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TraditionalAbout
An adaptation of a traditional song calling for harmony between England and Scotland. The original can be found in the Jacobite Relics of Scotland, published in 1819. Dick Gaughan adopted some of the words and composed the tune. The title refers to the River Tweed, which forms part of the border bet...
Both Sides the Tweed Lyrics
[Verse 1]
What's the spring-breathing jasmine and rose?
What's the summer with all its gay train
Or the splendour of autumn to those
Who've bartered their freedom for gain?
[Chorus]
Let the love of our land's sacred rights
To the love of our people succeed
Let friendship and honour unite
And flourish on both sides the Tweed
[Verse 2]
No sweetness the senses can cheer
Which corruption and bribery bind
No brightness that gloom can e'er clear
For honour's the sum of the mind
[Chorus]
Let the love of our land's sacred rights
To the love of our people succeed
Let friendship and honour unite
And flourish on both sides the Tweed
[Verse 3]
Let virtue distinguish the brave
Place riches in lowest degree
Think them poorest who can be a slave
Them richest who dare to be free
[Chorus]
Let the love of our land's sacred rights
To the love of our people succeed
Let friendship and honour unite
And flourish on both sides the Tweed
Both Sides the Tweed Q&A
Who wrote Both Sides the Tweed's ?
Both Sides the Tweed was written by Traditional.
Who produced Both Sides the Tweed's ?
Both Sides the Tweed was produced by Dick Gaughan.
What did Dick Gaughan say about "Both Sides the Tweed"?
From the liner notes of the LP release of Handful of Earth:
This was originally a comment on the Act of Union of 1707, an act of political and economic expediency which it is an understatement to say was unpopular at the time in Scotland. I didn’t like the original tune (Hogg’s Jacobite Relics) and...