The Book of Scottish Song/The Campbells are coming
The Campbells are coming.
[The following words are given in Johnson's museum to the well-known tune of "The Campbells are coming." From the mention of Lochleven, they are absurdly supposed by some to belong to the days of Queen Mary's imprisonment there. They were with much greater probability composed when "the great Argyle and a' his men" marched, northward to suppress the insurrection of 1715.]
The Campbells are coming, O-ho, O-ho!
The Campbells are coming, O-ho!
The Campbells are coming to bonnie Lochleven!
The Campbells are coming, O-ho, O-ho!
Upon the Lomonds I lay, I lay;
Upon the Lomonds I lay;
I lookit doun to bonnie Lochleven,
And saw three perches play.
The Campbells are coming, &c.
Great Argyle he goes before
He makes the cannons and guns to roar;
With sound of trumpet, pipe, and drum;
The Campbells are coming, O-ho, O-ho!
The Campbells they are a' in arms,
Their loyal faith and truth to show,
With banners rattling in the wind;
The Campbells are coming, O-ho, O-ho!