Key: F
Introduction:
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From my father's veins my life I drew, as in patriots arms I lay and from those lips
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learned the lessons true that have steered me day by day. and nursed to rest on a loving
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breast and rocked at a patriot's knee, God strengthen still my mind and will, and the
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patriot's heart in me.
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The loyal heart, the patriot's heart from the shame of slavery free, God strengthen still my
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mind and will, and the patriots heart in me.
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Now my home is where the Coolin peaks rise towering o'er the waves and the unbound
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sea and the grandeur free forbids me live a slave, the waves that pound on the rocks
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around seem to roar out liberty and with each strong blast beats firm and fast the patriot's
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heart in me
Chorus
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Now I've led my nation's blood so drage and have sung her deathless songs I've mourned
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her grief from age to age, and I've learned to right her wrongs. and when I saw to unjust
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law she'd never bow the knee, O stronger yet for Scotland beat this patriot heart in me.
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