Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear Ye Jacobites by name, your faults I will proclaim Your doctrines I must blame You shall hear, you shall hear Your doctrines I must blame, you shall hear
What is right and what is wrong by the law, by the law What is right and what is wrong by the law What is right and what is wrong By short sword or by long A weak arm or a strong for to draw
What makes heroic strife famed afar, famed afar What makes heroic strife famed afar What makes heroic strife To whet the assassain's knife Or haunt a parent's life wi' bloody 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