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Thread #129094   Message #2896218
Posted By: Jim McLean
28-Apr-10 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 1320 (Gordon Menzies)
Subject: ADD: Declaration of Arbroath (Jim McLean)
Joe, I think my lyrics have been posted some time ago but here they are again:
Declaration of Arbroath: Lyrics Jim McLean, Melody an adaptation of Follow me up to Carlow. (1966)

DECLARATION OF ARBROATH
(Jim McLean)

In Thirteen-Twenty Scotland said,
Should England dare our soil to tread,
The blood will flow in rivers red,
Before capitulation.
No more will Scotland bow the knee,
To foreign prince who e're he be,
For come what may we'll aye be free,
From English domination.

Chorus :
Here's to the men who took the oath,
The Declaration of Arbroath,
Freedom and right, are causes both,
To save us from damnation.
Out with traitor, out with foe,
Give the Saxon blow for blow,
And freedom's brightest star shall glow,
Above the Scottish nation.

It's not for honour that we sigh,
Nor glory makes us long to die.
But liberty is Scotland's cry,
No English subjugation.
Our fathers didn't die in vain,
For while a hundred men remain,
No English king shall o'er us reign,
Stand up for Scotland's nation.

Too long we've played the tartan fool,
Too long we've bowed to English rule,
Too long we've cringed before John Bull,
Afraid of confrontation.
So heed the words from Bruce's pen,
Scotland must be free again,
Stand up the hundred Scottish men,
Who'll honour the Declaration.