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YE JACOBITES BY NAME
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, give an ear!
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear,
Ye Jacobites by
name,
Your fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame -
you shall hear!You shall hear
Your doctrines I maun blame -
you shall hear!
What is Right, and what is wrang, by the law, by the law?
What is Right, and what is Wrang, by the law?
What
is Right, and what is Wrang?
A short sword and a lang,
A weak arm and a strang, for to draw!
For to draw,
The weak arm and the long for to draw
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, give an ear!
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear,
Ye Jacobites by name,
Your
fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame -
you shall hear!You shall hear
Your doctrines I maun blame -
you shall hear!
What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar?
What makes heroic strife famed afar?
What makes
heroic strife ?
To whet th' assassin's knife,
Or hunt a Parent's life, wi bluidy war!
bluidy war
or haunt a parents life wi' bloody war.
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, give an ear!
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear,
Ye Jacobites by
name,
Your fautes I will proclaim,
Your doctrines I maun blame -
you shall hear!You shall hear
Your doctrines I maun blame -
you shall hear!
Then let your schemes alone, in the State, in the State!
Then let your schemes alone, in the State!
Then
let your schemes alone,
Adore the rising sun,
And leave a man undone, to his fate!
to his fate.
And leave a man undone tae his fate.
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