KING ROBERT'S ADDRESS

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T: KING ROBERT'S ADDRESS
O: 1806
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.14-16
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87661539
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
K: Gmix
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w: Scots, wha hae wi' Wal-lace bled; Scots, wham
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w: Bruce has af-ten led;* Wel-come to your go-ry
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w: bed, Or to glo-rious vic-to-ry! Now's the day, and
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w: now's the hour! See the front of bat-tle lour!
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w: See* ap-*proach proud Ed-ward's pow'r! Ed-ward,
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w: chains, and sla-ve-ry!
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W: Wha will be a traitor knave?
W: Wha can fill a coward's grave?
W: Wha sae base as be a slave?
W:    Traitor, coward, turn and flee!
W:
W: Wha for Scotland's king and law,
W: Freedom's sword will strongly draw?
W: Freeman stand, or freeman fa',
W:    Caledonian, on wi' me.
W:
W: By oppression's woes and pains;
W: By your sons in servile chains,
W: We will drain our dearest veins,
W:    But they shall be, shall be free.
W:
W: Lay the proud usurpers low;
W: Tyrants fall in ev'ry foe;
W: Liberty's in ev'ry blow!
W:    Forward -— let us do or die.
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T: WEEL MAY WE A' BE
T: to the same air
O: 1806
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.16-17
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87661539
K:
W: Weel may we a' be,
W:   Ill may we never see;
W:   Here's to the king
W:     And the good company.
W:       Fill, fill a bumper high;
W:     Drain, drain your glasses dry,
W:     Out upon him, fie! O fie!
W:     That winna do't again.
W:
W: Here's to the king, boys!
W:   Ye ken wha I mean, boys;
W:   And ev'ry honest man, boys,
W:     That will do't again.
W:       Fill, fill, &c.
W:
W:   Here's to a' the chieftains
W:   Of the gallant Scottish clans,
W:   They hae done it mair than anes,
W:     And they'll do't again.
W:       Fill, fill, &c.
W:
W:   When the pipes begin to strum
W:   Tutti, taitie, to the drum,
W:   Out claymore, and down the gun,
W:     And to the knaves again.
W:       Fill, fill, &c.
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T: THE LAND O' THE LEAL
T: to the same air
O: 1806
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.17-18
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87661539
K:
W: I'm wearing awa, Jean,
W: Like snaw when it's thaw, Jean,
W: I'm wearing awa, Jean,
W:   To the land o' the leal,
W: There's nae sorrow there, Jean,
W: There's nae cauld nor care, Jean;
W: The day is ay fair, Jean,
W:   In the land o' the leal.
W:
W: Ye've been leal and true, Jean,
W: Your task's ended now, Jean,
W: And I'll welcome you, Jean,
W:   To the land o' the leal.
W: Our bonny bairn's there, Jean,
W: She was baith gude and fair, Jean,
W: And we grudg'd her right sair, Jean,
W:   To the land o' the leal.
W:
W: Dry that tearfu' ee, Jean,
W: My soul langs to be free, Jean,
W: And angels wait on me, Jean,
W:   In the land o' the leal.
W: Then fareweel my ain Jean;
W: This warld's care is vain, Jean;
W: We'll meet and ay be fain, Jean,
W:   In the land o' the leal.
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