Deanta - Culloden's Harvest lyrics

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Cold winds on the moors blow.<br />

Warm the enemy's fires glow.<br />

Like the harvest of Culloden,<br />

Pain and fear and death grow.)<br />

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1. 'Twas love of our prince drove us all to Drumossie,<br />

But in scarcely the time that it takes me to tell<br />

The flower of our country lay scorched by an army<br />

As ruthless and red as the embers of hell.<br />

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(Chorus) <br />

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2. Red Campbell the Fox did the work of the English.<br />

McDonald in anger did no work at all.<br />

With musket and cannon against honour and courage.<br />

The invading men stood while our clansmen did fall.<br />

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(Chorus)<br />

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3. Nine mothers and children were left to their weeping,<br />

With only the memory of father and son.<br />

Turned out of their homes to make shelter for strangers,<br />

The blackest of hours on this land has begun.<br />

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(Chorus)