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MacPherson’s Rant
[Verse 1]
Fare ye weel ye dark and lonely hills,
Far away beneath the sky.
Macpherson's time will no be long
on yonder gallows tree.
[Chorus]
Sae rantinly, sae wantonly,
Sae dantinly gaed he.
He played a tune, an' he danced it aroon
in a blow the gallows tree
[Verse 2]
It was by a woman's treacherous haun,
That I was condemned tae dee.
Upon a ledge on a window she stood,
And a blanket she threw ower me.
[Chorus]
Sae rantinly, sae wantonly,
Sae dantinly gaed he.
He played a tune, an' he danced it aroon
in a blow the gallows tree
[Verse 3]
For there's some come here tae see me die,
An' some tae buy my fiddle
But before that I do part wi' her,
I'll break her through the middle
[Chorus]
Sae rantinly, sae wantonly,
Sae dantinly gaed he.
He played a tune, an' he danced it aroon
in a blow the gallows tree
[Verse 4]
He took his fiddle in tae both o' his hands
An he break it ower a stane.
Says no anither shall play on thee,
When I am dead an' gone.
[Chorus]
Sae rantinly, sae wantonly,
Sae dantinly gaed he.
He played a tune, an' he danced it aroon
in a blow the gallows tree
[Verse 5]
The reprieve was comin' ower the Brig o' Banff,
Tae set Macpherson free.
But they pit the nock a quarter to four
An they hanged him tae the tree.
[Chorus]
Sae rantinly, sae wantonly,
Sae dantinly gaed he.
He played a tune, an' he danced it aroon
in a blow the gallows tree