CHORUS

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly

And sae dauntingly gaed he

And he played a tune and he danced around

Below the gallow's tree

Farewell ye dungeons dark and strong
A wretch's destiny
MacPhersons time will no be lang
On yonder gallow's tree

CHORUS

Oh what is death, but parting breath
On manies a bloody plain
I've daur'd his face, and in his place
I scorn him yet again

CHORUS

I have lived a life, o' straught and strife
I die by treachery
It burns my heart, that I must depart
An no avenged be

CHORUS

So tak these bands fae aff my hands
Gae to me my sword
There's nae a man in a' Scotland
But I'll brave him at a word

CHORUS

Now farewell light thou sunshine bright
And all beneath the sky
May coward shame distain his name
The wretch that dare not die

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