I prefer about 3/8=40. Sessions tend to go a bit faster, but it isn't my idea of a good session tune.

Here are the full words (which I have never heard sung):

HECTOR THE HERO

Lament him, ye mountains of Ross-shire;
Your tears be the dew and the rain;
Ye forests and straths, let the sobbing winds
Unburden your grief and pain.
Lament him, ye warm-hearted clansmen,
And mourn for a kinsman so true
The pride of the Highlands, the valiant MacDonald
Will never come back to you.

       O, wail for the mighty in battle,
       Loud lift ye the Coronach strain;
       For Hector, the Hero, of deathless fame,
       Will never come back again.

Lament him, ye sons of old Scotia,
Ye kinsmen on many a shore;
A patriot-warrior, fearless of foe,
Has fallen to rise no more.
O cherish his triumph and glory
On Omdurman's death-stricken plain,
His glance like the eagle's, his heart like the lion's
His laurels a nation's gain.

       O, wail for the mighty in battle,
       Loud lift ye the Coronach strain;
       For Hector, the Hero, of deathless fame,
       Will never come back again.

O rest thee, brave heart, in thy slumber,
Forgotten shall ne'er be thy name;
The love and the mercy of Heaven be thine;
Our love thou must ever claim.
To us thou art Hector the Hero,
The chivalrous, dauntless, and true;
The hills and the glens, and the hearts of a nation,
Re-echo the wail for you.

       O, wail for the mighty in battle,
       Loud lift ye the Coronach strain;
       For Hector, the Hero, of deathless fame,
       Will never come back again.