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(5) We’ll light like brave heroes of fame and renown,

To defend our country, and support the crown,

And like our ancestors, as we have been told,

We'll rush to the battle like lions so bold.

Our country requires it, our king he commands,

To conquer our foes and to take all their lands;

And when we’ve subdu’d them we'll share all the spoil,

As fruits of our labour, our hardships and toil,

Our country shail praise us, our king will reward,

Our valour and courage, with love and regard,

So then we’ll come to you with riches full store,

And never shall leave you nor the British shore.

But as there are dangers attending on war,

May heaven preserve us, poor souls that we are;

When the guns they shall rattle, the cannons shall roar

And hundreds are lying in their blood and gore;

When the shrieks of the wounded shall mount to the skies,

And numbers are falling that never shall rise,

Let your prayers dear charmers be sent upon high,

To save us from danger, when, the bullets do fly.

But if ’tis our fortune to fall on the field,

Our courage unspotted we never shall yield:

If we are but victors tho’ purchas’d by death,

We’ll resign up our life, and with our last breath,

We’ll bless the glad moment that e’er brough us here,

To die for our country and near shed a tear,

Our names shall be ranked, 'mong them who were great.

And ages to come yet shall read of our fate.







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Hese lines from your lover, dear Jenny receive,

At Carlisle confined will make you to grieve,

I prisoner was taken at Culloden plain;

I wish in that battle that I had been slain.