Macphersons Rant chords by Alex Campbell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C  G C   G   C   Am   C   G   C F G

Verse:
     C                 G
"Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strang
    C                     Am
Fareweel, fareweel", said he
    C                   G
"MacPherson's time will no' be lang
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree"

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree

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

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree

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

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree

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

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree

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

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree

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

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree

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

Chorus:
    C              G
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly
    C               Am
Sae dauntingly gaed he
   C                    G
He played a tune and he danced it aroon'
 C       F       G
Alow the gallows tree