The "Freedom Come-All-Ye" (Scottish Gaelic: Thig Saorsa Uile) is a Scots language song written by Hamish Henderson in 1960.
An early two-stanza version of the song was published in a broadsheet "Writers against Aparthied" (sic) in the Spring of 1960;[1] as the first line refers to Harold Macmillan's Wind of Change speech,[2] given in February of that year, the composition can be dated quite precisely.
[3] The song's tune is an adaptation of World War I pipe march "The Bloody Fields of Flanders", composed by John McLellan DCM (Dunoon),[4] which Henderson first heard played on the Anzio beachhead.
He wrote the lyrics after discussions with Ken Goldstein, an American researcher at the School of Scottish Studies, who had enjoyed Henderson's rendition of the tune.
[5] A version of the song was performed by South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.