{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2753808,"song":"The Bloody Sarks","artist":"The Corries","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11630298-the-bloody-sarks-chords-by-the-corries/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2753808?type=chord","rating":4.93086,"votes":4,"content":"\r\nThe Bloody Sarks\r\nThe Corries\r\n7/4/2019\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe young McGregor o Glen Strae wi eighty o his men[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nUpon the Argyll's sleekit word pit Finla's glen a flame[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe burning thieving hieland rant drove a the beasts awa[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd left ahint twa dirkit men to perish in the snaw[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBy Fallisdall the letter come frae black Dumbarton toon[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo show the way they were to gae to bring McGregor doon[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe bloody sarks o butchered men tae Jamie's court maun gae[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe widow women for to show and tell of the afray[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nColquhoun o Luss could thole nae mair wi trampelled savaged pride[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBuchanan levies mounted up to tan McGregor hide[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFrom Leven's vale, Dumbarton toon, and all these lowland parts[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe burgesses and fairmers came wi vengeance in their hearts[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe Campbell and the Cameron, MacDonald o Glencoe[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nRanked alang wi Gregorach and marched o'er the snow[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFar o'er the loch frae Arklet glen and doon the pass Parlane[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy Loch Long whose shores are held by the thieves o MacFarlane[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nColquhoun wi his windy lowland mob lined o'er the Fruin glen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFive hundred foot, arrayed aboot, three hundred mounted men[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYon godless hoard o Gregorach and others o their kind[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWill creep nae mair frae their thievin lair wi murdering in their minds[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAye whether be it for some stirks or just a ween o blacks[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey’re ay'ways quick their dirks to stick in ain anither's backs[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor honest men and guid Scots law we'll tramp the vermin oot[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust steady bide God's on our side o that there is nae doubt[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThen like a torrent frae the glen McGregor's scarlet charge[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe sassenach could ne'er withstand the claymore and the targe[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd all around the hellish screams o torn and dying men[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTheir precious blood seeped in the mud and drained in Fruin Glen[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd every beast was lead awa, a full twa thoosand heid[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the sairest price the victors paid was twa McGregors dead[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut bide ye yet the victor's feast the worst still to show[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor the king proclaimed the Gregorach henceforth to be outlaw[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAye the bold McGregor and his clan were a declared outlaw[/tab]","plain_text":"The Bloody Sarks\nThe Corries\n7/4/2019\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]","chords":["G","Em","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}