HERE'S a health to them that's awa, <br />Here's a health to them that's awa; <br />And wha winna wish gude luck to our cause, <br />May never gude luck be their fa'! <br />It's gude to be merry and wise, <br />It's gude to be honest and true; <br />It's gude to support Caledonia's cause, <br />And bide by the buff and the blue. <br /> <br /> <br />Here's a health to them that's awa, <br />Here's a health to them that's awa, <br />Here's a health to Charlie 1 the chief o' the clan, <br />Altho' that his band be but sma'! <br />May Liberty meet wi' success! <br />May Prudence protect her frae evil! <br />May tyrants and tyranny tine i' the mist, <br />And wander their way to the devil! <br /> <br /> <br />Here's a health to them that's awa, <br />Here's a health to them that's awa; <br />Here's a health to Tammie, 2 the Norlan' laddie, <br />That lives at the lug o' the law! <br />Here's freedom to them that wad read, <br />Here's freedom to them that wad write, <br />There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard, <br />But they whom the truth would indite. <br /> <br /> <br />Here's a Health to them that's awa, <br />An' here's to them that's awa! <br />Here's to Maitland and Wycombe, let wha doesna like 'em <br />Be built in a hole in the wa'; <br />Here's timmer that's red at the heart <br />Here's fruit that is sound at the core; <br />And may he be that wad turn the buff and blue coat <br />Be turn'd to the back o' the door. <br /> <br /> <br />Here's a health to them that's awa, <br />Here's a health to them that's awa; <br />Here's chieftain M'Leod, a chieftain worth gowd, <br />Tho' bred amang mountains o' snaw; <br />Here's friends on baith sides o' the firth, <br />And friends on baith sides o' the Tweed; <br />And wha wad betray old Albion's right, <br />May they never eat of her bread!<br /><br />Robert Burns<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-health-to-them-that-s-awa/
