{"id":20729,"date":"2023-05-17T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=20729"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:09:14","slug":"last-of-the-sandies-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/last-of-the-sandies-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Last of the Sandies, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>[parody of The Cameron Clan]<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1902<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Lauder & Bob Beaton<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN24300<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Lauder<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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There's many a man in the Cameron clan\nThat has followed his chief to the field\nI am the last of the famous MacFuddles\nAnd I would die before I would yield\nBut I wouldn't like to die just now\nFor look what Society would miss\nThe ladies all stop me a tell me if I\nWas to die they'd have nothing to kiss.\n\nOch! my! all the nice ladies they meet me\nAnd treat me to sodas and brandies\nJust because I am Sandy MacFuddle,\nEsquire, the last o' the Sandies.<\/em>\n\nMy grandfather great lived in style and in state\nAnd his castle is still in Dundee\nThe girls cooed and kissed, laid their heads on his chest\nBut he's dead, and now they're all after me\nSo a nice lass I took for a stroll, ye ken\nHer love I could scarcely believe\nWhen I kissed her hand she looked at me, and wiped\nThe tears from her chin with her sleeve.\n\nThe last of my clan, I'm a pet ladies man\nI'm a Hielan'man true tae the hilt\nLassies all ask me for locks of my hair\nOr for just a wee bit off my kilt\nThe Macfuddles, ye ken, were a' handsome men\nThey lived upon whuskey and beer\nIt's plain, by my face, I'm of some noble race\nYes, the last o' the Sandies stands here.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A song co-written and performed by the prominent Scots comedian Harry Lauder<\/a> which borrows liberally from an earlier traditional Scottish song. Lauder described his inspiration in one of his autobiographies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was walking through the streets in the West End of London one day and observed, wherever I went, advertisements of a play called<\/em> The Last of the Dandies. All at once the idea flashed across me \u2014 why not write a Scotch character song entitled The Last of the Sandies<\/em>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lauder doesn’t mention that the first verse of his song is a close parody of a well-known traditional Scottish song written and composed by Mary Maxwell Cameron in c1829.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Mary Cameron’s song praises the bravery of members of the Cameron clan who marched to their deaths at Culloden in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Lauder borrows much of the first verse of the earlier song, as shown below, but paints a very different picture of his comic clan the MacFuddles<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Snippet from Bodleian Ballad Collection<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This song is included as an example of a pre-existing traditional song which was incorporated into a Music Hall piece. I have not aware of it featuring in the repertoire of any traditional singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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