<P> `` 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 . '' </P>
<P> `` 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 . '' </P>
who wrote will ye no come back again
who wrote will ye no come back again
Carolina Oliphant ( Lady Nairne )
Carolina Oliphant ( Lady Nairne )