Brave gen'rous [Southesk], [Tullibardin] was brisk,
Whose father indeed would not draw, man,
Into the same yoke, which serv'd for a cloak,45
To keep the estate 'twixt them twa, man.
And we ran, &c.
[Lord Rollo] not fear'd, [Kintore] and his beard,
[Pitsligo and Ogilvie], a', man,
And brothers Balflours they stood the first show'rs,
[Clackmannan and Burleigh] did claw, man.50
And we ran, &c.
But [Cleppan] fought pretty, and [Strowan] 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.
And we ran &c.
For [Huntly and Sinclair], they both play'd the tinkler,55
With consciences black as 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.
And we ran, &c.
[Then Laurie the traitor, who betray'd his master,]
His king, and his country, an' a', man,60
Pretending Mar might give orders to fight,
To the right of the army awa, man.
And we ran, &c.
Then Laurie, for fear of what he might hear,
Took Drummond's best horse, and awa, man:
'Stead of going to Perth, he crossed the Firth,65
Alongst Stirling bridge, and awa, man.
And we ran, &c.
To London he press'd, and there he profess'd
That he behav'd best o' them a', man,
And so, without strife, got settled for life,
A hundred a-year to his fa', man.70
And we ran, &c.
In Borrowstounness he resides with disgrace,
Till his neck stand in need of a thraw, man;
And then in a tether he'll swing from a ladder,
And go off the stage with a pa', man.
And we ran, &c.