Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Parcel of Rogues, artist - Barbara Dickson.
Date of issue: 31.12.1993
Song language: English
Parcel of Rogues |
Farewell tae a' oor Scottish fame |
Farewell oor ancient glory |
Farewell even tae oor Scottish name |
Sae famed in martial story |
Noo Sark runs o’er the Solway Sands |
And Tweed runs tae the ocean |
Tae mark where England’s province stands |
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation |
What force or guile could ne’er subdue |
Through many warlike ages |
Is wrought now by a coward few |
For hireling traitors wages |
The English steel we could disdain |
Secure in valour’s station |
But English gold has been our bane |
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation |
Oh would or I had seen the day |
That treason thus could fell us My auld grey heid had lain in clay |
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace |
But pith and power, till my last hour |
I’ll mak' this declaration |
We are bought and sold for English gold |
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation |