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Thread #845 Message #2479
Posted By: Barry
22-Feb-97 - 08:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Highlander's Farewell: 'O where shall...'
Subject: JACOBITE WORDS: WERE WIIL I GO SEEK MY BREAD
I'm looking for words to the last verse of this song & it's name. The first verse goes "Oh where will I go seek my bread & where will I go wander, and where will go hide my head for here I'll bide nay longer, the winds may blow the sea may roll & swirl me round in danger, my native land I must forgo and bide the lonley stranger", the part of the last verse I'm missing goes "Thy brave thy just fell in the dust, on ruin's brink we quiver ......???? aduei aduei forever.