"Bonnie Charlie '', also commonly known as "Will ye no come back again? '', is a Scots poem by Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), set to a traditional Scottish folk tune. As in several of the author 's poems (she was known for "saccharine imitations of Jacobite song '') its theme is the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which ended at the Battle of Culloden. Written well after the events it commemorates, it is not a genuine Jacobite song, like many other songs that were "composed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but... passed off as contemporary products of the Jacobite risings. ''
who wrote will ye no come back again
Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne)