The Dumfries Volunteers.

Tune - "Push about the jorum."


I.

    Does haughty Gaul invasion threat,
        Then let the loons beware, Sir,
    There's wooden walls upon our seas,
        And volunteers on shore, Sir.
    The Nith shall run to Corsincon,
        And Criffel sink in Solway,
    Ere we permit a foreign foe
        On British ground to rally!

II.

    O let us not, like snarling tykes,
        In wrangling be divided;
    Till slap come in an unco loon
        And wi' a rung decide it.
    Be Britain still to Britain true,
        Amang oursels united;
    For never but by British hands
        Maun British wrangs be righted!

III.

    The kettle o' the kirk and state,
        Perhaps a clout may fail in't;
    But deil a foreign tinkler loon
        Shall ever ca' a nail in't.
    Our fathers' bluid the kettle bought,
        And wha wad dare to spoil it;
    By heaven! the sacrilegious dog
        Shall fuel be to boil it.

IV.

    The wretch that wad a tyrant own,
        And the wretch his true-born brother,
    Who would set the mob aboon the throne,
        May they be damned together!
    Who will not sing, "God save the King,"
        Shall hang as high's the steeple;
    But while we sing, "God save the King,"
        We'll ne'er forget the people.