Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I must proclaim
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I must proclaim
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
What is right and what is wrang by the law, by the law
What is right and what is wrang by the law
What is right and what is wrang, a short sword or a lang
A weak arm and a strang for to draw, for to draw
A weak arm and a strang for to draw.
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I must proclaim
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
What makes heroic strife famed afar, famed afar?
What makes heroic strife famed afar?
What makes heroic strife, to whet the assassin's knife
Or hunt a parent's life with a bloody war, bloody war
Or hunt a parent's life with a bloody war.
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I must proclaim
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
So let your schemes alone in the state, in the state
So let your schemes alone in the state
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.
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I must proclaim
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear, lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name lend an ear
Ye Jacobites by name your faults I must proclaim
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.
(Certains mots sont écossais)