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Will Ye No Come Back Again

by Kenneth McKellar

on A Scottish Journey (1994), Songs of the Jacobite Risings (1996)

Will Ye No' Come Back Again?

Bonnie Charlie's no awa
Safely o'er the friendly main
Mony a heart will break in twa
Should he ne'er come back again

Will ye no' come back again?
Will ye no' come back again?
Better lo'ed ye canna be
Will ye no' come back again?

Ye trusted in your Hielan' men
They trusted you, dear Charlie
They kent your hiding in the glen
Death or exile braving

English bribes were a' in vain
Tho' puir, and puirer, we maurn be
Siller canna buy the heat
That beats aye for thine and thee

We watch'd thee in the gloamin' hour
We watch'd thee in the mornin' grey
Tho' thirty thousand pound they gie
Oh, there is nane that wad betray