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The Campbells are Comin'

Melody

Robert Burns

Chorus:
The Campbells are comin, Oho! Oho!
The Campbells are comin to bonie Lochleven,
The Campbells are comin Oho! Oho!

Upon the Lomonds I lay, I lay,
Upon the Lomonds I lay, I lay,
I looked down to bonie Lochleven,
And saw three bonie perches play.
Chorus

2. Great Argyle he goes before,
He maks his cannons and guns to roar,
Wi' sound o trumpet, pipe and drum
The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho!
Chorus

3. The Campbells they are a'in arms
Their loyal faith and truth to show,
Wi banners rattling in the wind
The Campbells are comin Oho, Oho!
Chorus

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Burns muddled history with this song. He starts with the Campbell involvement in the Jacobite rebellion, and turns back the clock a couple of hundred years to the time of Mary Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned at Lochleven Castle in 1567. The 5th Earl of Argyle, who also was a Campbell, was the one who came to her rescue.

Ever since the clan sided with Robert Bruce, the Campbells were one of the most powerful clans in all of Scotland.

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