Leezie Lindsay

Will ye gang tae the hielands, Leezie Lindsay?
Will ye gang tae the hielands wi’ me?
Will ye gand tae the hielands, Leezie Lindsay,
My bride and my darlin’ tae be?

Tae gang tae the hielands wi’ you, sir
Would bring the sault tear tae my e’e,
Aye, at leavin’ the gree glens and woodlands
And streams of my ain country.

I’ll show ye the red deer a-roamin’
On mountains where waves the tall pine,
And as far as the bound of the red deer,
Ilk moorland and mountain is mine.

A thousand claymores I can muster,
Ilk blade and its bearer the same.
And when round their chieftain they rally,
The gallant Argyll is my name.

There’s dancin’ and joy i’ the hielands,
There’s pipin’ and gladness an d glee,
For Argyll hae brought hame Leezie Lindsay,
His bride and his darlin’ tae be.

– Traditional Scots song, dating to the time of the Battle
of Bannockburn,