Ballad on the American War by Robert Burns

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Tune-"Killiecrankie."

When Guilford good our pilot stood / An' did our hellim thraw, man, / Ae night, at tea, began a plea, / Within America, man: / Then up they gat the maskin-pat, / And in the sea did jaw, man; / An' did nae less, in full congress, / Than quite refuse our law, man.

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