Ye yakobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear,
Ye yakobites by name, lend an ear.
Ye yakobites by name, Your faults I must proclaim,
your doctrines I will blame, you shall hear, you shall hear,
your doctrines I will blame, you shall hear.
What is right and what is wrong, by the law, by the law?
What is right and what is wrong, by the law?
What is right and what is wrong, by short sword or by long,
by weak arm or by strong for to draw, for to draw?
By weak arm or by strong for to draw?
What makes heroic strife famed a far, famed a far?
What makes heroic strife famed a far?
What makes heroic strife to when the assassins knife
or haunt a parents life with bloody war, bloody war?
Or haunt a parents life with bloody war?
So let your schemes alone, in the states, in the states,
So let your schemes alone, in the states.
So 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.