Ye Jacobites By Name

Robbie Burns' song, "Ye Jacobites By Name" (Roud # 5517), performed by Canadian folksinger Jesse Ferguson. This song is about the Jacobite uprising in the mid 18th century.

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Ye Jacobites by Name
(traditional/Robert Burns [1791], arrang. J. Ferguson, Dec. 2013)

104 bpm

Chorus: [let chords ring on first time only]
Em G D
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear.
Em Bm Em
Ye Jacobites by name, lend an ear.
G D
Ye Jacobites by name, your faults I will proclaim.
Em Bm
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear, you will hear.
Em Bm Em
Your doctrines I maun blame, you will hear.*

*begin rousing strum on “hear.”

Interlude: Em Bm Em

V1.
What is right and what is wrong by the law, by the law?
What is right and what is wrong by the law?
What is right and what is wrong—the short sword or the long,
the weak arm or the strong for to draw, etc.

Chorus:

V2.
What makes heroic strife famed afar, famed afar?
What makes heroic strife famed afar?
What makes heroic strife, to whet the assassin's knife
or hunt a parent's life with bloody war, etc.

Chorus:

V3.
Then leave your schemes alone in the state, in the state.
Then leave your schemes alone in the state.
Then leave your schemes alone; adore the rising sun,
and leave a man alone to his fate, etc.

Chorus:
[repeat final line three times, drawing out final “blame.”]