Tono: D
Introducción: Dm
C
Saying, "Charlie, meet me an ye daur
F C F C
And I'll learn ye the arts o' war
Dm Am Dm
If you meet me in the morning"
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
Fye, noo Johnnie, gets up and run
C
The Hi'land bagpipes mak a din
F C F C
It's better tae sleep in a hale skin
Dm Am Dm
For it'll be a bloody morning
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
When Charlie looked the letter upon
C
He drew his sword the scabbard from
F C F C
"Follow me, my merry men
Dm Am Dm
And we'll meet Johnnie Cope in the morning"
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
When Johnnie Cope tae Dunbar cam
C
They spiered at him, "Where's a' your men?"
F C F C
"The De'il confound me, I dinnae ken
Dm Am Dm
For I left them all in the morning"
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
Then, "Faith", quo' Johnnie, "I got sic fegs
C
Wi' their claymores and their philabegs
F C F C
Cannae face them again, De'il brak ma legs
Dm Am Dm
And I bid you's all 'Good morning'"
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning
F
Hey, Johnnie Cope are you wauking yet?
C
Or are your drums a-beating yet?
F C F C
If ye were wauking, I would wait
Dm Am Dm
Tae gang tae The Coals in the morning