Misc Traditional – Ye Jacobites By Name (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
Em                             G           D
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear,

Em                    D       Em
[tab]G                     D
Ye Jacobites by name, your faults I will proclaim,

Em                                     G               D
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear, you shall hear,

Em                           D         Em
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.
[Verse 2]
Em                                     G           D
What's right and what is wrang, by the law, by the law,

Em                              D       Em
What's right and what is wrang, by the law.

G                               D
What's right and what is wrang, the short sword and the lang,

Em                              G            D
A weak arm and a strang, for to draw, for to draw,

Em                       D      Em
A weak arm and a strang, for to draw.
[Verse 3]
Em                              G           D
What makes heroic strife, famed afar? famed afar?

Em                        D     Em
What makes heroic strife, famed afar?

G                         D
What makes heroic strife, to whet the assasins knife,

Em                                   G           D
Or haunt a parent's life, wi' bloody war? bloody war?

Em                        D          Em
Or haunt a parent's life, wi' bloody war?
[Verse 4]
Em                                  G             D
Then let your schemes alone, in the state, in the state,

Em                           D      Em
Aye, let your schemes alone, in the state.

G                             D
Oh, leave your schemes alone, adore the rising sun,

Em                             G            D
And leave a man undone, to his fate, to his fate,

Em                       D      Em
Aye, leave a man undone, to his fate.
[Verse 1]
Em                             G           D
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear,

Em                    D       Em
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear.

G                     D
Ye Jacobites by name, your faults I will proclaim,

Em                                     G               D
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear, you shall hear,

Em                           D         Em
Your doctrines I maun blame, you shall hear.