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Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, give an ear, / Ye Jacobites by name, give an ear, / Ye Jacobites by name, / Your fautes I will proclaim, / Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.
What is Right, and What is Wrang, by the law, by the law? / What is Right and what is Wrang by the law? / What is Right, and what is Wrang? / A short sword, and a lang, / A weak arm and a strang, for to draw.
What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar? / What makes heroic strife famed afar? / What makes heroic strife? / To whet th' assassin's knife, / Or hunt a Parent's life, wi' bluidy war?
Then let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state, / Then let your schemes alone in the state. / Then let your schemes alone, / Adore the rising sun, / And leave a man undone, to his fate.