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    Try checking on youtube - there is a guy on there singing it with a guitar. Might help you out a bit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BonnieT100 View Post
    Try checking on youtube - there is a guy on there singing it with a guitar. Might help you out a bit.
    If this video is the one you're speaking of, that "guy" is Jim Malcolm - former lead singer of Old Blind Dogs. OBD's cover of this song is the superlative version to my mind. It has the drive and fire that Burns was writing of in his radical paen to the common man. In his verses Burns espouses the homely values of the commoner over the glitz and glamour of the wealthy and the titled - surely a radical position to hold in Britain at the time of the French Revolution. This sort of thought was enough at that time, and in certain quarters, to warrant the death of the speaker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wgority View Post
    If this video is the one you're speaking of, that "guy" is Jim Malcolm - former lead singer of Old Blind Dogs. OBD's cover of this song is the superlative version to my mind. It has the drive and fire that Burns was writing of in his radical paen to the common man....
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    OBD's version with Jim at the helm is my favorite version.
    I agree whole heartedly that they put the passion into that song.
    I think Burn's himself would be quite proud of it.
    Nelson
    "Every man dies. Not every man really lives"
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