Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Rogues In A Nation , by - Steeleye Span. Release date: 26.02.1995
Song language: English
Rogues In A Nation |
| 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 |