YE JACOBITES BY NAME                                                          traditional

 

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Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear

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Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear!

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Ye Jacobites by name, your thoughts I will proclaim,

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Your doctrines I must blame, you shall hear, you shall hear,

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Your doctrines I must blame, you shall hear!

 

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What is right and what is wrong by the law, by the law,

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What is right and what is wrong by the law?

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What is right and what is wrong by short sword or by long,

    Am                                    Am              G

A weak arm or a strong for to draw, for to draw,

    Am                            G       Am

A weak arm or a strong for to draw.

 

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What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar,

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What makes heroic strife, famed afar?

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What makes heroic strife, or what the assasinīs knife,

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Or haunt your parentīs life with bloody war, bloody war,

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Or haunt your parentīs life with bloody war.

 

 

Then leave your schemes alone in the state, in the state,

Then leave your schemes alone in the state!

Then leave your schemes alone, adore the rising sun

And leave a man undone to his faith, to his faith,

And leave a man undone to his faith!