Ye Jacobites By Name - Alastair McDonald

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

Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear

Ye Jacobites by name

Your faults I will proclaim

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear

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

Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear

Ye Jacobites by name

Your faults I will proclaim

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear

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

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

What is right, what is wrong

The weak arm and the strong

The short sword and the long, for to draw, for to draw

The short sword and the long, for to draw

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

Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear

Ye Jacobites by name

Your faults I will proclaim

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear

What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar

What makes heroic strife, famed afar

What makes heroic strife

To whet th' assassin’s knife

and haunt a Parent’s life, wi' bloody war, wi' bloody war

and haunt a parent’s life, wi' bloody war

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

Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear

Ye Jacobites by name

Your faults I will proclaim

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear

So let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state

Let your schemes alone, in the state

Let your schemes alone

Adore the rising sun

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

And leave a man undone to his fate

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

Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear

Ye Jacobites by name

Your faults I will proclaim

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear

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

Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear

Ye Jacobites by name

Your faults I will proclaim

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear