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Hazel Whyte
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Uist Tramping
Song
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Were the outdated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.
Come along, come along, Let us foot it out
together,
Come along, come along, be it fair or stormy
weather,
With the hills of home before us and the
purple of the heather,
Let us sing in happy chorus, come along,
come along.

O gaily sings the lark, And the sky's all awake
With the promise of the day, for the road we
gladly take;
So it's heel and toe and forward, bidding
farewell to the town,
For the welcome that awaits us, ere the sun
goes down.

Chorus

It's the call of sea and shore, it's the tang of
bog and peat,
And the scent of brier and myrtle, that puts
magic in our feet;
So it's on we go rejoicing, over bracken, over
stile,
And it's soon we will be tramping out the last
long mile.

Chorus
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