6/13/2023 0 Comments Fruit of the yew lyrics![]() My bonnie yew tree, tell me what do you see? O the sad, bloody tales that men tell you.īut a wee bird flew out from your branchesĪn the words o the song were a thousand years long One kiss o the axe an you're freed fae the wracks That it might be a kindness tae fell you. I thought as I stood an laid hands on your wood Tae hide fae the thunder an count out the plunderįor when the poor hunt the poor across mountain an moor ![]() Not once did you speak for the poor an the weak ![]() It would freeze aa the joy in their hearts. O the bishops an priests fae their backs?įor the price o their souls was a gospel sae cold Tae the puir common folk who would cast off the yoke When you heard the great slaughter begin?ĭid ye no think tae tell when John Knox himsel ![]() My bonnie yew tree, tell me what did you see?ĭid you look through the haze o the lang simmer's days,Īa the bonnets o steel on Flodden's far field,ĭid they march by your side in guid order? The auld people swear by the gray o their hairįor the shadows of Scotland stand round it,'midst the kail an the corn an the kye -Aa the hopes an the fears of a thousand long years, A mile fae Pentcaitland, on the road tae the sea,
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