Folk music from Scotland - Ye Jacobites by name - by Arany Zoltán

Ye Jacobites By Name

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From: Real Men Wear Kilts

words and music Robert Burns

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.

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, a short sword and a long

A weak arm and 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 assassin's knife

Or hunt a parent's life with bloody war.


Then leave your schemes
alone in the state, in the state

Then leave your schemes alone in the state

Then leave your schemes alone, adore the rising sun

And leave a man alone to his fate.


Then leave your schemes
alone, adore the rising sun

And leave a man alone to his fate...

And leave a man alone to his fate.


KEY
Am


verse/chorus:


Am F G

Am Em Am

C G

Am Em F G

Am Em Am


Background: Song about the Jacobite Revolution of
1746. The song was re-written by Robert Burns in 1791. Patrick D.
writes, "I doubt that it is written about the Jacobite Uprising in 1745,
and may be more of a warning against Jacobite sympathies and the
possible consequences. Alternatively, since it was written in 1791, it
could be a warning against Jacobinism during the French revolution".