Such a Parcel of Rogues

Lyrics are from a Robert Burns poem, tabbed to the Dubliners version of the song.

INTRO

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FIRST VERSE

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Farewell to all our Scottish way

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Farewell our ancient glory

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Farewell even to our Scottish name

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So famed in martial story

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Now Sark runs over the Solway ferth

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And Tweed runs to the ocean

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To mark where England's province stands

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Such a parcel of rogues in a nation



SECOND VERSE

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What force or guile could not subdue

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Through many warlike ages

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Is roth now by a coward few

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For hireling traitor's wages

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The English steel we could disdain

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Secure in valour's station

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But we're bought and we're sold for English gold

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Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation



THIRD VERSE


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O would ere I had seen the day

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That treason thus could sell us

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My auld grey head had lien in clay

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With Bruce and loyal Wallace

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But pith and power till my last hour

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I'll mak this declaration

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That we're bought and sold for English gold

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Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation