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Sung by Alastair McDonald
They hung
Wallace high on the gallows
And let him down ere he was dead
And while he choked the Queen
jeered him
For daring to cross English Ted
His heart and his liver they
savaged
As Her Majesty watched the glad
scene
His head was cut off, he was quartered
Twas an afternoon fit for a Queen
Chorus ...
They murdered the Wallace for
treason
His body has long since decayed
But no English crown can destroy
him
For
Wallace is with us today,
Ay, Wallace is with us today
He took up his
sword against England
The cowardly Sassenach ran
He met them at Falkirk and
Stirling
And he burned them like rats from
our land
King Edward of England was raging
That
Scotland was free once again
The Scottish Republican Army
Had
wiped out his best fighting men
Chorus .....
Oh William the
Wallace fought bravely
No Englishman could him defeat
But English gold bought Scottish
quislings
And he was betrayed by Mentieth
With a crown made of thorns he was
tortured
For setting his own country free
"How am I a traitor, cried
Wallace,
When England is foreign to me?"
Chorus .....
Through
Edinbrugh, Stirling and Falkirk
From Inverness
to Elderslie
His spirit is calling for justice
And
commands us to set ourselves free
And when once again we do battle
For
Scotland against foreign scum
With no fear of betrayal to the
Saxons
Let them come, let them come, let them come !
Final Chorus
.....
They murdered the Wallace for treason
His body has long since decayed
But no English crown can destroy
him
For
Wallace is with us today,
Ay, Wallace is with us today
Ay, Wallace is with us today
Ay, Wallace is with us today
Ay, Wallace is with us today
........