MacPherson's Lament - Battlefield Band

Farewell ye dungeons dark and strong

The wretch’s destiny

MacPherson’s life will no' be long

On yonder gallows tree

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly

Sae dauntingly gaed he

He played a tune and he danced aroon

Below the gallows tree

Oh what is death but parting breath

On mony’s the blood plain

I’ve seen his face and in this place

I scorn him yet again

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly

Sae dauntingly gaed he

He played a tune and he danced aroon

Below the gallows tree

I’ve lived a life of grief and strife

I die by treachery

But it breaks my heart, I must depart

And not avengád be

Gae take these bonds from off my hands

And bring tae me my sword

And there’s no' a man in all Scotland

But I’d brave him at his word

So farewell strife and sunshine bright

And all beneath the sky

May coward shame disdain the name

O' the wretch that dare not die

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly

Sae dauntingly gaed he

He played a tune and he danced aroon

Below the gallows tree