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Steeleye Span

Rogues In A Nation

Lyricist：Hart Timothy Daniel, Johnson Robert M Leonard, Kemp Frederick Stanley, Knight Peter Norman, Prior Madeleine Edith

Farewell to all our Scottish fame
Farewell our ancient glory
Farewell even to our Scottish name
Sae fam'd in martial story

Now Sark runs over the Solway sands
And Tweed runs to the ocean
To mark where England's province stands
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation

What force or gile could not subdue
Through many warlike ages
Is wrought now by a coward few
For hireling traitor's wages

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The English steel we could disdain
Secure in valor's station
But English gold has been our bane
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation

I would or I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld gray head had lain in clay
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace

But pith and power, till my last hour
I'll make this declaration
We were bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation