Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation

"Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation" is a Scottish folk song, listed as number 5516 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

The tune was published in 1747 in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion under the title "A parcel of Rogues in the Nation", and in William McGibbon's 1762 collection. Words and music were included in volume 4 of James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, published in 1792. Though it credited Robert Burns for other contributions to the collection, he made no claim to this song. By 1853 the lyrics were attributed to him.

James Hogg's Jacobite Relics of 1819 related the song to airs and legends about Jacobitism, dating from furious arguments over blame for the ruinous failure of the Scottish Parliament's Darien scheme, when William and Mary ruled Scotland and England, to the Acts of Union which formed the unified Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. It came to be associated with Scottish nationalism and also been referenced in other situations where politicians' actions have gone against popular opinion.

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