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Hazel Whyte
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Highland Widow's
Lament
OH! I am come to the low countrie,
=Och-on, och-on, och-rie!
Without a penny in my purse,
=To buy a meal to me.

It was nae sae in the Highland hills,
=Och-on, och-on, och-rie!
Nae woman in the country wide
=Sea happy was as me.

For then I had a score o' kye,
=Och-on, och-on, och-rie!
Feeding on yon hills so high,
=And giving milk to me.

And there I had three score o' yowes,
=Och-on, och-on, och-rie!
Skipping on yon bonnie knowes,
=And casting woo' to me.

I was the happiest of the clan,
=Sair, sair may I repine;
For Donald was the brawest lad,
=And Donald he was mine.

Till Charlie Stewart cam at last,
=Sae far to set us free;
My Donald's arm was wanted then,
=For Scotland and for me.

Their waefu' fate what need I tell,
=Right to the wrang did yield:
My Donald and his country fell
=Upon Culloden field.

Oh! I am come to the low countrie,
=Och-on, och.on, och-rie!
Nae woman in the world wide
=Sae wretched now as me.
A simple brief
thought on Scottish
Independance.

Were the outdated
union not of some very
high value to England and
the English, why would
they fight so to try to
keep it?

There are only so many
slices to a pie, for one to
have more, another must
have less.

Lastly - to those Scottish
"Loyalists" - to whom are
you loyal?
Scots royalty died in the
1700's so it can be no
Scots crown - And
certainly not it appears to
those who came before,
that bled for Scotland
and her freedom !  
In the words
of Burns, as he
wrote from the heart.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victorie.

Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power,
Chains and slaverie.

Wha would be a traitor-knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a Slave?
Let him turn and flie:

Wha for Scotland's king and law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Free-man stand, or free-man fa',
Let him follow me.

By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your Sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!

Lay the proud Usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us Do - or Die!!!

Choose your destiny.
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