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all my brave fellows, sad listen a while,

I’ll tell yon the way that they did us beguiie;

The King’s Lyon-Herald from Edinburgh did come,

And straight to Coalsnaughton the rascals did run.

They came to my mothers, and guarded all-round,

They thought we would run but the contrar’ they found;

So straight down to Alloa we came all away,

To Ramsay’s in the Tontine, and made no delay.

Being innocent all, no harm we thought on;

But came down to Alloa, before Mr. Horn,

The same who is Agent for the Excise-Law,

We made no delay, so we all came awa

But had we but known what Warrand they had,

We would not gone with them, but given them the bag;

But since Fortune has said it t let it be so,

From the Tontine to Stirling in coaches we'll go.

The seventeenth of April our trial we did ,

Before Lords and Jury, that honourable band;

But for all the false oaths that were going that day,

I would have come off, had I gotten fair play.