Chorus:
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D
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear,
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D e
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear,
G D
Ye Jacobites by name, your faults I will proclaim
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Your doctrine I must blame,
D
You shall hear, you shall hear,
e D e
Your doctrine I must blame, you shall hear.
e G D
What is right and what is wrong, by the law, by the law,
e D e
What is right and what is wrong, by the law?
G D
What is right and what is wrong, by short swords and by long,
e D
A weak arm or a strong for to draw, for to draw,
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a weak arm or a strong for to draw.
Chorus
What makes heroic strife, famed
afar, famed afar,
what makes heroic strife, famed afar,
what makes heroic strife, to whet the assassin's knife,
or haunt a parent's life, wi' bloddy war, wi' bloddy war,
or haunt a parent's life, wi' bloody war.
Chorus
Then let your schemes alone in
the state, in the state,
then let your schemes alone in the state,
then let your schemes alone, adore the rising sun,
and leave a man undone to his fade , to his fade,
then leave a man undone to his fade.
Chorus (2x)