Who is Carolina, Lady Nairne

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (16 August 1766 – 26 October 1845) – also known as Carolina Baroness Nairn in the peerage of Scotland and Baroness Keith in that of the United Kingdom – was a Scottish songwriter.

Many of her songs, such as, "Will ye no' come back again?", "Charlie is my Darling" , "The Rowan Tree" and "Wi' a Hundred Pipers' remain popular today, almost two hundred years after they were written. One of her songs, "Caller Herrin'", was sung at the 2021 commemoration of the 1881 Eyemouth disaster. She usually set her words to traditional Scottish folk melodies, but sometimes contributed her own music.

Carolina Nairne and her contemporary Robert Burns were influenced by the Jacobite heritage in their establishment of a distinct Scottish identity, through ...
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Carolina, Lady Nairne Poems

• The Land O' The Leal
  I'm wearin' awa', John
  Like snaw-wreaths in thaw, John,
  I'm wearin' awa'
  To the land o' the leal....

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• Tsmacdonald: hear some tim & jeremy gow recordings on the bbc as part of this programme on carolina oliphant, lady nairne!
• Andyvermaut: andy vermaut shares:burns night: lady carolina nairne's poignant work mistaken for bard's: lady carolina nairne wrote a poignant folk song commonly attributed to the great scottish bard.
• Isearch247: burns night: lady carolina nairne's poignant work mistaken for bard's -
• Rabiulhasan360: burns night: lady carolina nairne's poignant work mistaken for bard's
• Bbcnewsni: her work is often mistaken for that of robert burns, but lady carolina nairne wrote some of the most famous scottish folk songs.

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