"Tell down your money, if it be good,
And let me see if it be fine;
I'm sure I have it in my power65
To bring the traitor Wallace in."
The money was told on the table,
Silver bright of pounds fiftie:
"Now here I stand," said Willie Wallace,
"And what hae ye to say to me?"70
He slew the captain where he stood,
The rest they did quack an' roar;
He slew the rest around the room,
And ask'd if there were any more.
"Come, cover the table," said Willie Wallace,75
"Come, cover the table now, make haste;
For it will soon be three lang days
Sin I a bit o' meat did taste."
The table was not well covered,
Nor yet was he set down to dine,80
Till fifteen more of the English lords
Surrounded the house where he was in.
The guidwife she ran but the floor,
And aye the guidman he ran ben;
From eight o'clock till four at noon85
He had kill'd full thirty men.
He put the house in sic a swither
That five o' them he sticket dead,
Five o' them he drown'd in the river,
And five hung in the West-muir wood.90
Now he is on to the [North-Inch] gone,
Where the maid was washing tenderlie;
"Now by my sooth," said Willie Wallace,
"It's been a sair day's wark to me."
He's put his hand in his pocket,95
And he has pull'd out twenty pounds;
Says, "Take ye that, ye weel-fared maid
For the gude luck of your half-crown."