trad
About the vendetta between the Earl of Huntly and the Clan Macintosh in 1592. Ewan MacColl wrote in 1956: “Following the killing of the Earl of Murray in February 1592, the Macintoshes of Clan Chattan, intent on revenge, pillaged a castle and killed four men on an estate belonging to the Earl of Huntly, whom they held responsible for Murray’s death. Huntly retaliated by laying waste the lands of Clan Chattan. Returning home from this engagement, he surprised the Macintoshes spoiling his lands at Cabrach and in the ensuing fight killed sixty of them.”
The Iron Horse (Annie Grace & Ross Kennedy vocals): Song: The Burning of Auchindoun -Turn Again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMa14q0BXt8
As I cam in by Fiddichside, on a May morning I spied Willie MacIntosh, an oor afore the dawning Turn again, turn again, turn again I bid ye If you burn Auchindoon, Huntly he will heid ye Heid me, hang me, that shall never fear me I?ll burn Auchindoon, though the life it leave me As I cam in by Auchindoon, on a May mornin’ Auchindoon was in a blaze an hour afore the dawning. Crawin’, crawin’, for a’ your crowse crawin’ Burnt your crop and tint your wings, an hour afore the dawning