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Thread #161439   Message #3836137
Posted By: Thompson
01-Feb-17 - 04:24 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Ye Jacobites by Name
Subject: Lyr Add: YE JACOBITES BY NAME (from Robert Burns)
From a collection of Burns' poems on archive.org:

YE JACOBITES BY NAME

Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear.
Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear.

Ye Jacobites by name.

Your fauts I will proclaim.
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.

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 haunt a Parent's life, wi' blaidy war?

Then let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state,
Then let your schemes alone, in the State.
Then let you schemes alone.

Adore the rising sun.
And leave a man undone, to his fate.