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 He tortured poor children until they revealed

The holes and the hags that their parents concealed;

The weakness of woman enliven'd his glee,

So kind and gallant was the bloody Dundee!

When James, as a Papist, forfaulted the throne,

His subjects rejoiced that the Darkness had flown;

The gleam of the Orange illumined the sea

And brought freedom in spite of the bloody Dundee.

But Claver'se has summoned the clans from the hills,

That the Lowlands may swallow "black Prelacy's pills;

For claymores can teach, and the axe make you see,

That justice and truth ride with bloody Dundee!

Say, wild Killiecrankie, shall Scotland hear mass,

And Protestants pine in Dunnottar and Bass?

No! William approaching makes bigotry flee,

And tyranny fall with the bloody Dundee.

Then Monuments garnish with thumbkin and chains,

To the Man whom the blood of our Martyrs bestains;

Till Buchan's wide plains, from the hills to the sea,

Shall shudder to mouband the bloody Dundee.

Would you banish care and gloom

Frae your ain fireside,

Oh, let Temperance bud and bloom

At your ain fireside;

Then your canty wifie's smile

Will the cares of life beguile,

And allay the pains of toil

At your ain fireside.