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by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

Farewell to a' our Scottish Fame
Language: Scottish (Scots) 
Fareweel to a' our Scotish fame,
  Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel even to the Scotish name,
  Sae fam'd in martial story!
Now Sark rins o'er the Solway sands,
  And Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark whare England's province stands,
  Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

What force or guile could not subdue,
  Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
  For hireling traitors' wages.
The English steel we could disdain,
  Secure in valor's station;
But English gold has been our bane,
  Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

O would, or I had seen the day
  That treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
  Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
  I'll mak this declaration;
We're bought and sold for English gold,
  Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "Farewell to a' our Scottish Fame", 1949 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Hermann Wichmann.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 149

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