Corries - Macpherson's Rant lyrics

Farewell ye dungeons dark and strang,

The wretches destiny,

MacPhersons time will no be lang,

On yonder gallow's tree



It was by a woman's treachorous hands,

That I was condemned to dee,

She stood uben a windae ledge,

And a blanket threw o'er me



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Sae rantingly, sae wantonly,

Ans sae dauntingly gaed he,

He played a tune and he danced around

Below the gallow's tree

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Oh what is death, but parting breath

On mony a bloody plain

I've daur'd his face, and in his place



I scorn him yet again



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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



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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



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Now farewell light thou sunshine bright

And all beneath the sky

May coward shame distain his name

The wretch that dare not die



(Chorus)

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