Macphersons Rant chords by Alex Campbell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC G+G C majorC  G+G  C majorC  A minorAm  C majorC  G+G  C majorC FF G+G

Verse:
   C majorC         G+G
"Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strang
  C majorC           A minorAm
Fareweel, fareweel", said he
  C majorC          G+G
"MacPherson's time will no' be lang
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree"

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree

Verse:
    C majorC      G+G
"It was by a woman's treacherous hand
   C majorC          A minorAm
That I was condemned tae dee
 C majorC         G+G
Aboon a ledge at a windae she stood
   C majorC      FF     G+G
And a blanket she threw o'er me"

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree

Verse:
  C majorC          G+G
"Untie these bands frae aff o' my hands
  C majorC       A minorAm
And gie tae me my sword
    C majorC      G+G
There's no a man in a' Scotland
     C majorC     FF   G+G
But I'll brave him at his word"

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree

Verse:
        C majorC         G+G
"Well, there's some come here tae see me hang
  C majorC        A minorAm
And some tae buy my fiddle
   C majorC        G+G
But afore that I dae part wi' her
  C majorC     FF      G+G
I'd brak' her through the middle"

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree

Verse:
     C majorC          G+G
Well, he took his fiddle into both of his hands
    C majorC        A minorAm
And he brak' it o'er a stane
    C majorC           G+G
Said, "Nae ither hands shall play on thee
   C majorC  FF    G+G
When I am deid and gane"

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree

Verse:
   C majorC       G+G
"Och, little did my mother think
   C majorC         A minorAm
When first she cradled me
   C majorC       G+G
That I would turn a roving boy
  C majorC     FF    G+G
And die on the gallows tree"

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree

Verse:
   C majorC               G+G
The reprieve it was coming o'er the Brig o' Banff
  C majorC       A minorAm
Tae set MacPherson free
     C majorC         G+G
But they put the knock tae quarter past four
     C majorC     FF    G+G
And they hanged him tae the tree

Chorus:
  C majorC       G+G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
  C majorC        A minorAm
Sae dauntingly gaed he
  C majorC          G+G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C majorC    FF    G+G
Alow the gallows tree