The red-coats were to them a terror.

Now Charles concealed was in Uist,

And there to stay no longer durst,

The Campbells were coming a ho, a ho,

He durst not bide, and could not go:

Every day he saw them well,

And had none with him but O’Neil.

The day was long and hot the sun,

About the twenty first of June,

Upon a mountain top they lay,