Independence Blues - Paul Mounsey

My name is MacDonald

I got myself a farm

And on that farm, I got be some negroes

Just to give the place a little charm

Now I was born in the Highlands

Come out here back in fifty-four

Come out to the Carolinas

To start again on a new-found shore

Now I ain’t got no taxman

And I ain’t got no chief, too

Gonna make a fresh start as a freeman

My niggers gonna see me through

Oh, yeah!

They gonna see me through!

I got no future in my ain country

Couldn’t go back if I wanted to

So I came out here to old Cape Fear

But now the revolution’s come here too

Governer came down, and said:

«You Highland men!

You got to fight now for your King!»

And the funniest thing is that thirty years ago

Bonnie Charlie said the exact same thing

With a Patriot here and a Loyalist there

I got the independence blues

Ain’t gonna fight no more on a losing score

So King Georgie let me fight for you

Hey, Georgie!

Let me fight for you!

My sins hae been mony

An' my sorrows hae been sair

But there they’ll never vex me

Or be remembered mair

For his bluid has made me white

An His han' shall dry my e’e

When he brings me hame at last

To my ain countrie