Macphersons Rant

	  		Intro 
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Verse 
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"Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strang 
    C                     Am 
Fareweel, fareweel", said he 
    C                   G 
"MacPherson's time will no' be lang 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree" 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree 

Verse 
        C            G 
"It was by a woman's treacherous hand 
     C                   Am 
That I was condemned tae dee 
 C                 G 
Aboon a ledge at a windae she stood 
      C           F          G 
And a blanket she threw o'er me" 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree 

Verse 
   C                    G 
"Untie these bands frae aff o' my hands 
    C             Am 
And gie tae me my sword 
        C           G 
There's no a man in a' Scotland 
         C         F      G 
But I'll brave him at his word" 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree 

Verse 
               C                  G 
"Well, there's some come here tae see me hang 
    C               Am 
And some tae buy my fiddle 
     C               G 
But afore that I dae part wi' her 
    C         F           G 
I'd brak' her through the middle" 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree 

Verse 
         C                    G 
Well, he took his fiddle into both of his hands 
       C               Am 
And he brak' it o'er a stane 
       C                     G 
Said, "Nae ither hands shall play on thee 
     C    F        G 
When I am deid and gane" 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree 

Verse 
      C             G 
"Och, little did my mother think 
     C                 Am 
When first she cradled me 
     C              G 
That I would turn a roving boy 
    C          F       G 
And die on the gallows tree" 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree 

Verse 
      C                             G 
The reprieve it was coming o'er the Brig o' Banff 
    C              Am 
Tae set MacPherson free 
         C                 G 
But they put the knock tae quarter past four 
         C          F       G 
And they hanged him tae the tree 

Chorus 
    C              G 
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly 
    C               Am 
Sae dauntingly gaed he 
   C                    G 
He played a tune and he danced it aroon' 
 C       F       G 
Alow the gallows tree