- Wi’ a hundred pipers an’ a', an’ a’,
Wi' a hundred pipers an’ a’, an’ a',
We'll up an' gie them a blaw,
Wi’ a hundred pipers an' a’, an’ a',
Oh! It’s owre the Border awa', awa'
It’s owre the Border awa', awa’
We'll on and we’ll march to Carlisle ha'
Wi' its yetts, its castell, an' a’, an' a’
Wi' a hundredpipers an' a' an' a'
Wi' a hundredpipers an' a' an' a'
We'll up an'gie them a blaw, a blaw
Wi' a hundredpipers an' a' an' a'
- Oh! our sodger lads looked braw, looked braw,
Wi’ their tartans, kilts an’ a', an’ a',
Wi’ their bonnets, an’ feathers, an’ glittering gear
An' pilbrochs sounding sweet and clear
Will they a’ return to their ain dear glen?
Will they a' return, our heiland men?
Second-sighted Sandy looked fu' wae
And mothers grat when they marched away
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- The esk was swollen, sae red and sae deep
But shouther to shouther the brave lads keep
Twa thousand swam owre to fell English ground
An’ danced themselves dry to the pibroch’s sound
Dumbfounder’d the English saw---they saw---
Dumbfounder'd they heard the blaw, the blaw
Dumbfounder’d, they ran awa', awa'
From the hundred pipers anP aP, an' a'
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Lady Nairn
