Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Independence Blues, artist - Paul Mounsey. Album song Nahoo 3: Notes From The Republic, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.1998
Record label: Iona
Song language: English
Independence Blues |
My name is MacDonald |
I got myself a farm |
And on that farm, I got be some negroes |
Just to give the place a little charm |
Now I was born in the Highlands |
Come out here back in fifty-four |
Come out to the Carolinas |
To start again on a new-found shore |
Now I ain’t got no taxman |
And I ain’t got no chief, too |
Gonna make a fresh start as a freeman |
My niggers gonna see me through |
Oh, yeah! |
They gonna see me through! |
I got no future in my ain country |
Couldn’t go back if I wanted to |
So I came out here to old Cape Fear |
But now the revolution’s come here too |
Governer came down, and said: |
«You Highland men! |
You got to fight now for your King!» |
And the funniest thing is that thirty years ago |
Bonnie Charlie said the exact same thing |
With a Patriot here and a Loyalist there |
I got the independence blues |
Ain’t gonna fight no more on a losing score |
So King Georgie let me fight for you |
Hey, Georgie! |
Let me fight for you! |
My sins hae been mony |
An' my sorrows hae been sair |
But there they’ll never vex me |
Or be remembered mair |
For his bluid has made me white |
An His han' shall dry my e’e |
When he brings me hame at last |
To my ain countrie |