Farewell ye dungeons dark and strong   The wretch's destiny   MacPherson's life will no' be long   On yonder gallows tree      Sae rantingly, sae wantonly   Sae dauntingly gaed he   He played a tune and he danced aroon   Below the gallows tree      Oh what is death but parting breath   On mony's the blood plain   I've seen his face and in this place   I scorn him yet again      Sae rantingly, sae wantonly   Sae dauntingly gaed he   He played a tune and he danced aroon   Below the gallows tree      I've lived a life of grief and strife   I die by trechery   But it breaks my heart, I must depart   And not avengèd be      Gae take these bonds from off my hands   And bring tae me my sword   And there's no' a man in all Scotland   But I'd brave him at his word      So farewell strife and sunshine bright   And all beneath the sky   May coward shame disdain the name   O' the wretch that dare not die      Sae rantingly, sae wantonly   Sae dauntingly gaed he   He played a tune and he danced aroon   Below the gallows tree