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 30. Tho' you hoist your flag just of distress, You'll find their courage none the less, We'll meet you in the highland dress, Among Noghty glens in the morning. 31. So may their cattle sell, and country thrive, To be as happy men as now alive, And may they brew their whisky, two to five. Among the Noghty glens in the morning. 32. And if good hearted men do but pass by, They are the lads will not deny, To give them a drink, if they be dry. Among Noghty glens in the morning. 33. But none need be dry, there are good springs, The Lark and Linnet in it sings, There's no preventive in it reigns, They fled from it in the morning. 24. So when the Preventives from Glen Noghty went, To survey Glen Carry they were bent, But they wish'd that they had ne'er been sent, To survey these glens in the morning. 35. For there convened Glen Carry men great store, Their guns they did like thunder roar, And frighted the Preventives sore, Away from their glens in the morning, 36. So the Preventives went unto Culblean, And thought to ruin the country clean, But the country lads they met then keen, In the braes of Cromar in the morning, 37. The hardy lads that's in Cromar, They let them see the art of war, And made them run both fast and far, Away from their glens in the morning. 38. The Dee-side lads are valiant men. They made them run from hill and glen, Just as a fox runs to his den, When the hunter pursues in the morning. 39. The Cabrach lads they made them run, Tho' at them scarcely fired a gun, They let them know it was not fun, To survey on the Sunday morning.