...wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victorie! Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's...Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee!" The rousing poem went on for several stanzas, and as Cam finished, the fellow seated on the ground...

...thundered 'Scots wha hae,' from 'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn,' Wha will be a traitor-knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? - Let him turn and flie. (K 2:707) It was 1933; Mussolini was spreading tyranny and Hitler was inciting terrorism. Our...

...'s Address' from James Johnson, The Scots Musical Museum, Vol. 6 (Edinburgh: Johnson, 1803), p. 178. 'Wha will be a traitor knave? 'Wha can fill a coward's grave? 'Wha fae bafe as me a flave? 'Traitors coward! turn and flee. 'By opprefsion's woes and pains! 'By your...

...the hour; See the front of battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power — Chains and Slaverie! Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's...grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flie! Wha for Scotland's king and law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or Freeman...

...battle lour, See approach proud Edward's power Chains and Slaverie. — Wha will be a traitor-knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a Slave? — Let him turn, and flee. — And so on for several more Emotion-packed stanzas. I can Still hum the tune. The lines I remember...

...troops, Bruce points to the voluntary nature of their service." He quotes: Wha will be a traitor-knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a Slave? — Let him turn and flie: — Wha for SCOTLAND'S king and law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, FREE-MAN stand, or FREE-MAN...