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"O cam you here the fight to shun,

"Or herd the sheep wi' me man,

"Or was you at the Sherra-muir,

"And did the battle see man?"

I saw the battle sair and tough,

And reekin-red ran mony' a sheugh,

My heart for fear gae sough for sough,

To hear the thuds, and see the cluds,

O'clans frae woods, in tartan 'duds,

Wha glaura'd at kingdoms three, man.

The red coat lads wi' black cockades

To meet them were ni sla man,

They rush'd and push'd an blude out-gush'd

An' mony a bouk did fa' man;

The great Argyle led on his files,

I wa't ey glanced twenty miles;

'They hack'd and hash'd while broad swords clash

And through they dash'd and bow'd and smash'd

'Till fey man died away, man.

But had you seen the philabegs,