"Jamie Raeburn" is a traditional Scottish song about penal transportation.
Jamie Raeburn is reputed to have been a baker in Glasgow before being sentenced for petty theft, although he was allegedly innocent, and then sent out to the colonies as punishment.
The hero of the verses, in whose mouth the words are put, I recently learned on enquiry, through the columns of the Glasgow Evening Times was a baker to trade who was sentenced to banishment for theft more than sixty years ago.
Going home, he met an acquaintance of his boyhood, who took him in to treat him for auld langsyne.
Jamie was innocent as the unborn babe, but his heartless companion spoke not a word of his innocence.Tannahill Weavers, a Scottish folk group, have performed the song.