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On te lea of the rock shall your cradle be rock
And you're welcome unto te isle of Skhee akain.
Come along, come along, wit your poatie and your song,
My two ponny maitens, and tree ponny maitens
More sound shall you sleep, when you rock on te deep
And you's aye pe welcome to Skhee akain.*
THE BATTLE OF SHERIFF-MUIR.^
Tune— FFe raw, and they ran.
There's some say that we wan,
And some say that they wan,
And some say that nane wan at a', man ;
But ae thing I'm sure.
That at SherifF-muir
A battle there was, that I saw, man
And we ran, and they ran ; and they ran, and we
ran;
And we ran, and they ran awa, man.
Brave Argyle and Belhaven,"
Not like frighted Leven,^
Which Rothes* and Haddington^ saw, man ;
For they all, with Wightman,^
Advanced on the right, man.
While others took flight, being raw, man.
* From the Jacobite Relics, 1821.
1 Fought on the loth of November. 1715, between the forces of King
George I., under John Duke of Argyle, and those of " the Pretender,"
commanded by John Earl of Mar. The issue of this battle was uncertain,
the right wings of both armies being successful, while both left wings were
defeated. It is this winning and running, common to both parties, which
forms the principal humour of the song.
2 3 4 5 Lord Belhaven, the Earl of Leven, and the Earls of Rothes aiid
Haddington, who all bore arms as volunteers in the royal army.
6 Major-General Joseph Wightman, who commanded the centre of the
royal army.
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