{"id":1980,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-wallace"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WALLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They hung Wallace high of the gallows and cut down ere he was dead<br \/>\nAnd as he choked the Queen jeered for daring to cross English Ted<br \/>\nHis heart and his liver were savaged as her majesty watched the glad scene<br \/>\nHis head was cut off, he was quartered \u2019twas an afternoon fit for a Queen<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nThey murdered the Wallace for treason<br \/>\nHis body has long since decayed<br \/>\nBut no English crown can destroy him<br \/>\nFor Wallace is with us today, Aye Wallace is with us today<\/p>\n<p>He took up his sword against England; the cowardly Sassenach ran<br \/>\nHe beat them at Falkirk and Stirling and burned them like rats from our land<br \/>\nKing Edward of England was raging that Scotland was free once again<br \/>\nThe Scottish Republican Army had wiped out his best fighting men<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\nWilliam the Wallace fought bravely no Englishman could him defeat<br \/>\nBut English gold brought Scottish quislings and he was betrayed by Mentieth<br \/>\nWith a crown made of thorns he was tortured for setting his own country free<br \/>\nHow am I a traitor cried Wallace when England is foreign to me<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\nIn Edinburgh, Stirling and Falkirk from Inverness to Elderslie<br \/>\nHis spirit is calling for justice and commands to set ourselves free<br \/>\nSo when once again we do battle let the broadswords and English bows hum<br \/>\nWith no fear of betrayal to the Saxon let them come, let them come, let them come<br \/>\nChorus<br 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