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Thread #1308 Message #3182480
Posted By: John MacKenzie
06-Jul-11 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: ADD/Origins: Both Sides the Tweed (trad/Gaughan)
Subject: DT Correction : Both Sides the Tweed
Only one wee mistake really, should read 'Let friendship and honour unite'in the third line of the chorus. Note that although it doesn't say so, this second verse, IS actually sung as the chorus
BOTH SIDES THE TWEED (Words trad, amended by Dick Gaughan / Music : Dick Gaughan )
What's the spring-breathing jasmine and rose? What's the summer with all its gay train Or the splendour of autumn to those Who've bartered their freedom for gain?
CHORUS: Let the love of our land's sacred rights To the love of our people succeed Let friendship and honour unite And flourish on both sides the Tweed.
No sweetness the senses can cheer Which corruption and bribery bind No brightness that gloom can e'er clear For honour's the sum of the mind
Let virtue distinguish the brave Place riches in lowest degree Think them poorest who can be a slave Them richest who dare to be free