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 maun blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear
What is right, what is wrong, by the law, by the law What is right, and what is wrong, by the law What is right, what is wrong The weak arm and the strong The short sword and the long, for to draw, for to draw The short sword and the long, for to draw
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 maun blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear
What makes heroic strife, famed afar, famed afar What makes heroic strife, famed afar What makes heroic strife To whet th' assassin's knife and haunt a Parent's life, wi' bloody war, wi' bloody war and haunt a parent's life, wi' bloody war
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 maun blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear
So let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state Let your schemes alone, in the state Let your schemes alone Adore the rising sun And leave a man undone to his fate, to his fate And leave a man undone to his fate
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 maun blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear
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 maun blame, you will hear, you will hear Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear