Key: E
Introduction:
Em G D
Ye yakobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear,
Em G Em
Ye yakobites by name, lend an ear.
G D
Ye yakobites by name, Your faults I must proclaim,
Em G Em D
your doctrines I will blame, you shall hear, you shall hear,
Em G Em
your doctrines I will blame, you shall hear.
Em G D
What is right and what is wrong, by the law, by the law?
Em G Em
What is right and what is wrong, by the law?
G D
What is right and what is wrong, by short sword or by long,
Em G Em D
by weak arm or by strong for to draw, for to draw?
Em G Em
By weak arm or by strong for to draw?
Em G D
What makes heroic strife famed a far, famed a far?
Em G Em
What makes heroic strife famed a far?
G D
What makes heroic strife to when the assassins knife
Em G Em D
or haunt a parents life with bloody war, bloody war?
Em G Em
Or haunt a parents life with bloody war?
Em G D
So let your schemes alone, in the states, in the states,
Em G Em
So let your schemes alone, in the states.
G D
So let your schemes alone, adore the rising sun
Em G Em D
and leave a man undone to his fate, to his fate.
Em G Em
And leave a man undone to his fate.