Seven of the most popular songs/The Macgregor's gathering

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Seven of the most popular songs (1850s)
The Macgregor's gathering
3278038Seven of the most popular songs — The Macgregor's gathering1850s

The Macgregor's Gathering.

The moon's on the lake and the mist's on the brae,
And the clan has a name that is nameless by day;
Our signal for fight, which from monarchs we drew,
Must be heard out by night in our vengeful haloo;
Then haloo, haloo, haloo, Gregarach.

If they rob us of name and pursue us with beagles,
Give their roofs to the flame, and their flesh to the eagles.
Then gather, gather, gather, Gregarach.

While there's leaves in the forest, and foam on the river,
Macgregor, despite them, shall flourish for ever.
Glenorchy’s proud mountains, Co churn and her towers,
Glenstrae and Glenlyon no longer are ours;-
We're landless, landless, landless, Gregarach.

Through the depths of Loch Katrine the steed shall career,
O’er the peak of Benlomond the galley shall steer,
And the rocks of Craig Royston like icicles melt.
Ere our wrongs he forgot, or our vengeance unfelt,
Then vengeance, vengeance, vengeance, Gregarach.


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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