Complete Songs Of Robert Burns - online book

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	VII. PATRIOTIC AND POLITICAL              237
	Does haughty Gaul invasion threat? Then let the louns beware, sir; There's wooden walls upon our seas, And volunteers on shore, sir! The Nith shall run to Corsincon, The Criffel sink in Solway, Ere we permit a foreign foe On British ground to rally 1 We'll ne'er permit a foreign foe • On British ground to rally! O, let us not, like snarling tykes, In wrangling be divided, Till, slap! come in an unco loun, And wi' a rung decide it! Be Britain still to Britain true, Amang oursels united! For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted ! The kettle o' the kirk and state, Perhaps a clout may fail in't; But deil a foreign tinkler loun Shall ever ca' a nail in't! Our fathers' blude the kettle bought, And wha wad dare to spoil it; By heavens ! the sacrilegious dog ) ,. Shall fuel be to boil it!
	The wretch that would a tyrant own, And the wretch, his true-sworn brother, Who would set the mob above the throne, May they be damn'd together! Who will not sing God save the King Shall hang as high 's the steeple;
	But while we sing God save the King,	bis
	We'll ne'er forget the People!