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118 JACOBITE
And wasna, &c.
It's some gat swords, and some gat nane,
And some were dancing mad their lane,
And mony a vow o' weir was ta'en
That night at Amulrie.
And wasna, &c.
There was Tullibardine and Burleigh,
And Struan, Keith, and Ogilvie,
And brave Carnegie, wha but he,
The piper o' Dundee ?*
HE WINNA BE GUIDIT BY ME.
O heavens, he's ill to be guidit,
His colleagues and he are dividit,
Wi' the court of Hanover he's sidit,
He winna be guidit by me.
They ca'd him their joy and their darling,
Till he took their penny of arling ;
But he'll prove as false as Macfarlane :
He winna be guidit by me.
He was brought south by a merling,
Got a hundred and fifty pounds sterling,
Which will make him bestow the auld carlin :
He winna be guidit by me.
* The hero of this Song is supposed to have been Carnegie of
Phinhaven, celebratsd as the best flyer from the field of Sheriflfmuir,
namely,
" The laird of Phinaven, who swore to be even
Wi' ony general or peer o' them a', man."
He was a very active partizan of the Stuart party for a while, but
afterwards became notorious for deserting the cause, and of course
incurred all the odium usually attached to the character of a turn-
coat. The Song evidently refers to some meeting held at Ambulree,
a village in Perthshire, no doubt with a view to ascertain the feelings
of individuals towards the cause, and (is their intentions.