5.An fhideag airigid
Co a sheinneas an fhideag airigid
Ho ro hu a hu il o
Mac mo righ air tighinn a dh'Alba
Air lang mhar nar tri chrann airgid
Air long riomhach nam ball airgid
Tearlach og nan gorm shuil mealach
Failte, failte mian is clui dhuit
Fidhleireachd is ragha a'uil dhuit
Co a chanadh nach seinninn fhin i
(英文版)An fhideag airgid - The silver whistle
Who will play the silver reed (for pipe chanter),
when the Son of my King is
coming home？ asks the bard in this song
which was evidently composed
before the rising of l745. While the ship
in which Prince Charles had cros sed
from Eriskay lay in Loch nan Uamh, Moidart,
it was the sound of the bagpipe from the men of
Donald Cameron of Locheil -
the Gentle Lochiel -
that encouraged the young prince to proceed with
his adventure and other clans to jo in the Stewart cause.
It is a matter of historical record that hundreds of
volunteers were found who were willing to play the silver
reed for the homecoming of the Son of th eir King,
and that thousands more made the supreme sacrifice
for his dommed cause. This is surely testimony to
the intensity of the affection the Jacobites had for
the house of Stewart in general and for
Prince Charles Edward Stewart in particular.
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