Another possibly related song, from Jacobite Minstrelsy by Robert Malcolm (Glasgow: R. Griffin, 1828), page 314:


BATTLE OF VAL.*

    Up and rin awa, Willie,
    Up and rin awa, Willie;
    Culloden's laurels you have lost,
    Your puff'd-up looks, and a', Willie.

This check o' conscience for your sins,
It stings you to the saul, Willie,
And breaks your measures this campaign,
As much as Lowendahl, Willie.
    Up and rin awa, &c.

Whene'er great Saxe your troops attack'd,
About the village Val, Willie,
To scour awa ye wasna slack,
For fear you'd get a ball, Willie.
    Up and rin awa, &c.

In just reward for their misdeeds,
Your butchers gat a fa' Willie;
And a' that liv'd ran aff wi' speed
To Maestricht's strang wa', Willie.
    Up and rin awa, &c.

Baith Scott and Lockhart's sent to hell,
For to acquaint mamma, Willie,
That shortly you'll be there yoursel,
To roast ayont them a', Willie.
Up and rin awa, &c.

The Maese you cross'd just like a thief,
To feed on turnips raw, Willie,
In place of our good Highland beef,
With which you gorg'd your maw, Willie,
    Up and rin awa, &c.

To Hanover I pray begone,
Your daddie's dirty sta', Willie,
And look on that as your ain hame,
And come na here at a', Willie.
    It's best to bide awa, Willie,
    It's best to bide awa, Willie,
    For our brave prince will soon be back,
    Your loggerhead to claw, Willie.

* The fate of the house of Stuart being scaled by the victory gained at Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland, after reducing the Highlands, embarked for Flanders, and about January, 1747, joined the Allied Powers in their war against France. The forces of the Confederates, amounting to 120,000 men, were allowed to lie inactive in their camps for six weeks, exposed to the inclemency of the weather, and almost destitute of forage and provisions, while the French, commanded by Mareshal Saxe, Counts Lowendahl an De Clermont were comfortably lodged in cantonments at Bruges, Brussels, and Antwerp,—Mareshal Saxe declaring, "that when the Allied forces had been reduced by sickness and mortality, he would convince Cumberland that the first duty of a general was to provide for the health and preservation of his troops."

On the 20th June, both armies took the field, when a most sanguinary conflict took place at the village of Val, three miles west from Maestricht, which terminated in the defeat of Cumberland, and hts retreat to the latter place, having sustained a lose of 6000 men, 16 pieces of cannon, &c. During the whole of this campaign, Count Lowendahl was eminently successful in defeating the plans of Cumberland; and the French King, who visited his army in person, the same year, was so pleased with the exertions of the Count, that he promoted him to the rank of a Mareshal of France, and at the same time appointed Mareshal Saxe governor of the conquered Netherlands.