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[verse]
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Donald's gane up the hill hard and hungry,
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Donald comes down the hill wild and angry;
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Donald will clear the gouk's nest cleverly,
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Here's to king James and Donald MacGillavry!


Cm                     Cm
Come like a weighbauk, Donald MacGillavry,
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Come like a weighbauk, Donald MacGillavry,
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Balance them fair, and balance them cleverly:
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Off wi'the counterfeit, Donald MacGillavry!


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Donald's run o'er the hill but his tether, man,
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As he were wud, or stang'd wi' an ether, man;
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When he comes back, there's some will look merrily:
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Here's to King James and Donald MacGillavry!


Cm                  Cm
Come like a weaver, Donald MacGillavry,
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Come like a weaver, Donald MacGillavry,
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Pack on your back, and elwand sae cleverly;
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Gie them full measure, my Donald MacGillavry.


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Donald has foughten wi' rief and roguery;
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Donald has dinner'd wi banes and beggary,
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Better it were for Whigs and Whiggery
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Meeting the devil than Donald MacGillavry.


Cm                  Cm
Come like a tailor, Donald MacGillavry,
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Come like a tailor, Donald MacGillavry,
Cm                      Cm
Push about, in and out, thimble them cleverly,
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Here's to King James and Donald MacGillavry.


[Interlude]
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Cm                       Cm
Donald's the callan that brooks nae tangleness;
Cm                        A#
Whigging and prigging and a'newfangleness,
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They maun be gane: he winna be baukit, man:
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He maun hae justice, or faith he'll tak it, man.


Cm                   Cm
Come like a cobbler, Donald MacGillavry,
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Come like a cobbler, Donald MacGillavry;
Cm                            Cm
Beat them, and bore them, and lingel them cleverly,
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Up wi' King James and Donald MacGillavry.


Cm                   Cm
Donald was mumpit wi mirds and mockery;
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Donald was blinded wi' blads o' property;
Cm                  Cm
Arles ran high, but makings were naething, man,
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Lord, how Donald is flyting and fretting, man.


(Cm) N.C.
Come like the devil, Donald MacGillavry,

Come like the devil, Donald MacGillavry;

Skelp them and scaud them that proved sae unbritherly,
                               Cm
Up wi King James and Donald MacGillavry!


[outro]
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