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Rothesay Bay
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Were the outdated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.
Fu' yellow lie the cornrigs, fat down the braid
hillside;
It is the brawest har'st field, alang the shores
o' Clyde,
And I'm a puir har'st lassie wha stands the lee
lang day -
Amang the cornrigs of Ardbeg, aboon sweet
Rothesay Bay.

O I had ance a true love, now I hae nane ava;
And I had three braw brithers, but I hae tint
them a'.
My father and my mither sleep i' the mools
this day -
I sit my lane amang the rigs, aboon sweet
Rothesay Bay.

It's a bonnie bay at morning, and bonnier at
noon,
But bonniest when the sun draps and red
comes up the moon.
When the mist creeps o'er the Cumbraes and
Arran peaks are gray,
And the great black hills, like sleeping kings,
sit grand roun' Rothesay Bay.

Then a bit sigh stirs my bosom, and wee tear
blin's my e'e,
And I think of that far countrie wha I wad like
to be.
But I rise content i' the morning to wark while
I may -
I' the yellow har'st field of Ardbeg, aboon
sweet Rothesya Bay.
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