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Rh Grave Marshall and Lithgow,

And Glengary's pith, too,

Assisted by brave Logie A'mon',

And Gordons the bright,

Sae boldly did fight,

The red-coats took flight and awa', man.

Strathmore and Clanronald

Cried stil, "Advance, Donald!"

Till both of these heroes did fa', man;

For there was sic hashing.

And broadswords a-clashing.

Brave Forfar himsell got a claw, man.

Lord Perth stood the storm,

Seaforth but lukewarm,

Kilsyth and Strathallan not slaw, man;

And Hamilton pled

The men were not bred,

For he had no fancy to fa', man.

Brave, generous Southesk,

Tullibardine was brisk,

Whose father, indeed, would not draw, man.

Into the same yoke,

Which served for a cloak,

To keep the estate 'twixt them twa, man.

Lord Rollo, not fear'd,

Kintore and his beard.

Pitsligo and Ogilvie a', man.

And brothers Balfours,

They stood the first stours;

Clackmannan and Burleigh did claw, man.

But Cleppan acted pretty,

And Strowan, the witty,

A poet that pleases us a', man;

For mine is but rhyme,

In respect of what's fine,

Or what he is able to draw, man.

For Huntly and Sinclair,

They baith play'd the tinkler,

With consciences black like a craw, man;

Some Angus and Fife men,

They ran for their life, man,

And ne'er a Lot's wife there at a', man!

Then Lawrie, the traitor,

Who betray'd his master,

His king, and his country, and a', man.

Pretending Mar might

Give order to fight

To the right of the army awa', man;

Then Lawrie, for fear

Of what he might hear,

Took Drummond's best horse, and awa', man;

'Stead of going to Perth,

He crossed the Firth,

Alongst Stirling Bridge, and awa', man.

To London he press'd,

And there he address'd,

That he behaved best o' them a', man;

And there, without strife,

Got settled for life,

An hundred a-year to his fa', man.