| THE WALLACE Copyright Jim MacLean They hung Wallace high of the gallows and cut down ere he was dead And as he choked the Queen jeered for daring to cross English Ted His heart and his liver were savaged as her majesty watched the glad scene His head was cut off, he was quartered twas an afternoon fit for a Queen They murdered the Wallace for treason His body has long since decayed But no English crown can destroy him For Wallace is with us today, Aye Wallace is with us today He took up his sword against England; the cowardly Sassenach ran He beat them at Falkirk and Stirling and burned them like rats from our land King Edward of England was raging that Scotland was free once again The Scottish Republican Army had wiped out his best fighting men They murdered the Wallace for treason His body has long since decayed But no English crown can destroy him For Wallace is with us today, Aye Wallace is with us today William the Wallace fought bravely no Englishman could him defeat But English gold brought Scottish quislings and he was betrayed by Mentieth With a crown made of thorns he was tortured for setting his own country free How am I a traitor cried Wallace when England is foreign to me They murdered the Wallace for treason His body has long since decayed But no English crown can destroy him For Wallace is with us today, Aye Wallace is with us today In Edinburgh, Stirling and Falkirk from Inverness to Elderslie His spirit is calling for justice and commands to set ourselves ... |
