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BONNYMUIR (Allan Murchie) Although our lives were ventured fair To free our friends from toil and care, The English troops we dint to dare, And wish'd them a' good mornin'. It's with three cheers we welcomed them Upon the Muir of Bonny Plain, It was our rights from them to gain Caused us to fight that mornin'. With pikes and guns we did engage; With lion's courage did we rage For liberty or slavery's badge Caused us to fight that mornin'. But some of us did not stand true, Which caus'd the troops them to pursue, And still it makes us here to rue That e'er we fought that mornin'. We're a' condemned for to dee, And weel ye ken that's no a lee, Or banish'd far across the sea For fightin' on that mornin'. But happy we a' ha'e been Since ever that we left the Green, Although strong prisons we ha'e seen, Since we fought that mornin'. If mercy to us all shall be shown From Royal George's kingly crown, We will receive't without a frown, And sail the seas some mornin'. Mercy to us has now been shown From Royal George's noble crown, And we're prepared without a frown, To see South Wales some mornin'. Footnote : This song was written by one of the participants in the Battle of Bon nymuir on 5 April 1820. He was among the nineteen Radicals taken prisoner by Government troops and subseque ntly sentenced to life transportation in Australia. He wrote the song when imprisone d in Stirling Castle awaiting transportation. Dunfermline-born Allan Barbour Mu rchie was twenty-four when he stepped off the ship Speke to spend the rest of h is life, forty-five years, in Australia. He married and had seven children and seems to have prospered far beyond any prospects available to him in his native land. For the story of the 1820 Radical Rising read James Halliday's booklet 'T he 1820 Rising - The Radical War'. @Scottish @battle @transportation ( Tune : Johnny Cope ) filename[ BONYMUIR TUNE FILE: JOHNCOPE CLICK TO PLAY XX |
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