Grave Marshall[1] and Lithgow,[1]
And Glengary's[2] pith, too,
Assisted by brave Logie A'mon',[3]
And Gordons the bright,
Sae boldly did fight,
The red-coats took flight and awa', man.
Strathmore[4] and Clanronald[5]
Cried stil, "Advance, Donald!"
Till both of these heroes did fa', man;
For there was sic hashing.
And broadswords a-clashing.
Brave Forfar[6] himsell got a claw, man.
Lord Perth[7] stood the storm,
Seaforth[8] but lukewarm,
Kilsyth[9] and Strathallan[10] not slaw, man;
And Hamilton[11] pled
The men were not bred,
For he had no fancy to fa', man.
Brave, generous Southesk,[12]
Tullibardine[13] was brisk,
Whose father, indeed, would not draw, man.
Into the same yoke,
Which served for a cloak,
To keep the estate 'twixt them twa, man.
Lord Rollo,[14] not fear'd,
Kintore[15] and his beard.
Pitsligo[16] and Ogilvie[17] a', man.
And brothers Balfours,
They stood the first stours;
Clackmannan[18] and Burleigh[19] did claw, man.
But Cleppan[20] acted pretty,
And Strowan,[21] the witty,
A poet that pleases us a', man;
For mine is but rhyme,
In respect of what's fine,
Or what he is able to draw, man.
For Huntly[22] and Sinclair,[23]
They baith play'd the tinkler,
With consciences black like a craw, man;
Some Angus and Fife men,
They ran for their life, man,
And ne'er a Lot's wife there at a', man!
Then Lawrie, the traitor,
Who betray'd his master,
His king, and his country, and a', man.
Pretending Mar might
Give order to fight
To the right of the army awa', man;
Then Lawrie, for fear
Of what he might hear,
Took Drummond's best horse, and awa', man;
'Stead of going to Perth,
He crossed the Firth,
Alongst Stirling Bridge, and awa', man.
To London he press'd,
And there he address'd,
That he behaved best o' them a', man;
And there, without strife,
Got settled for life,
An hundred a-year to his fa', man.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Earls of Marischal and Linlithgow.
- ↑ The Chief of Glengary.
- ↑ Thomas Drummond of Logie Almond.
- ↑ The Earl of Strathmore, killed in the battle.
- ↑ The Chief of Clanranald, also killed.
- ↑ The Earl of Forfar—on the King's side—wounded in the engagement.
- ↑ James, Lord Drummond, eldest son of the Earl of Perth, was Lieutenant-General of horse under the Earl of Mar, and behaved with great gallantry.
- ↑ William Mackenzie, fifth Earl of Seaforth.
- ↑ The Viscount Kilsyth.
- ↑ The Viscount Strathallan.
- ↑ Lieutenant-general George Hamilton, commanding under the Earl of Mar.
- ↑ James, fifth Earl of Southesk.
- ↑ The Marquis of Tullibardine, eldest son of the Duke of Athole.
- ↑ Robert, Lord Rollo. He died in 1758.
- ↑ William Keith, Earl of Kintore.
- ↑ Lord Pitsligo. He was again "out" in the '45.
- ↑ Lord Ogilvie, son of the Earl of Airly.
- ↑ Bruce, Laird of Clackmannan.
- ↑ A relation of Lord Burleigh.
- ↑ Major William Clephane.
- ↑ Alexander Robertson of Struan, chief of the Robertsons. He was a poet, and died in 1749.
- ↑ Alexander, Marquis of Huntly, afterWards Duke of Gordon.
- ↑ The Master of Sinclair. He died in 1750.
