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BANNOCKS O BAHLEY.
[A mutilated copy of this song is in Johnson's Mu$ica} Mti^
semn ; to the research of Mr Cromek the public are indebted
for a complete copy of the song.]
Bannocks o' bear-meal, bannocks o' barley.
Here's to the Highlandman's bannocks o' barley !
Wha in a brulzie will first cry — A parley !— -
Never the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley !
Bannocks o' hear-meal, bannoclcs o' barley,
Here's to the Highlandmans bannock's o' barley /
Wha drew the gude claymore for Charlie ?
Wha cow'd the lowns o' England rarely ?
An' claw'd their backs at Falkirk fairly ?—
Wha but the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley !
Bannocks a' bear-meal, &c.
WTia, when hope was blasted fairly.
Stood in ruin wi' bonnie Prince Charlie ?
An' 'neath the Duke's bluidy paws dreed fu' sairly?~.
Wha but the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley ! ♦
Bannocks o' bear-meal. &c.
• " Of all the men who preserved an unshaken fidelity to the
Chevalier in his fallen fortunes, the most heroic was Roderick
M'Kenzie, who sacrificed his life for him, with a presence of mind,
and a self-devotion, unparalleled either in ancient or in modern
story.
' About this time, one Roderick M'Kenzie, a merchant of Edin-
burgh, who had been out with the Prince, was skulking among the
hills about Glenmorriston, when some of the soldiers met with him.
As he was about the Prince's size and age, and not unlike him in
the face, being a genteel man, and well dressed, they took him for
the Prince. M*Kenzie tried to escajje them, but could not, And