There will be dark
and lonely hills
Far above beneath the sky
Macpherson's time will not be long
On yonder gallows high
Say rantantly, say wantonly
Say dance and negate he He's played a tune and he's danced it to
ruin In a blow the gallows gleam
It was by a woman's treacherous horn I am condemned,
he
A blow a ledge at my windy sea stood A blanket she threw over me
Say rantantly,
say wantonly Say dance and negate he
He's played a tune and he's danced it
to ruin In a blow the gallows gleam
There's some come here to see me hang Some to buy my fiddle But
for the time would pay to hear her I'd brack through the middle
Say rantantly,
say wantonly Say dance and negate he He's played a tune
and he's danced it to ruin In a blow the gallows gleam
He took the fiddle and he bathed for his horns But
I kept a word of staying Say in the other hand,
shall play on thee And I am deed and gain Say rantantly,
say wantonly Say dance and negate he He's
played a tune and he's danced it to ruin
In a blow the gallows gleam
There's
reprieves coming,
oh the brigaband
They set Macpherson free But they put the knock a quarter for him
And they hanged him to the tree
Say rantantly,
say wantonly Say dance and negate he
He's
played a tune and he's danced it to ruin In a blow the gallows gleam
Oh little did my mother think When first she cradled me
That I would turn a roving boy Die on the gallows gleam
Say rantantly,
say wantonly Say dance and negate he
He's played a tune and he's danced it
to ruin In a blow the gallows gleam