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The Chevalier's Muster-Roll
circa 1715

Little wat ye wah's coming,
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Jock and Tam and a's coming.
Duncan's coming, Donald's coming,
Colin's coming, Ronald's coming,
Dougald's coming, Lauchlan's coming,
Alaster and a's coming.

Borland and his men's coming,
Cameron and M'Lean's coming,
Gordon and M'Gregor's coming,
Ilka Dunywastle's coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming.
M'Gillavry and a' coming.

Wigton's coming, Nithsdale's coming,
Carnwath's coming. Kenmure's coming,
Derwentwater and Foster's coming,
Withrington and Nairn's coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Blythe Cowhill and a' coming.

The laird of M'Intosh is coming,
M'Crabie and M'Donald's coming,
M'Kenzie and M'Pherson's coming,
And the wild M'Craw's coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Donald Gun and a's coming.

They gloom, they glour, they look sae big,
At ilka stroke they'll fell a Whig:
They'll fright the fuds of the Pockpuds,
For mony a buttock bare's coming.
Little wat ye wha's coming,
Jock and Tam and a's coming.

Editor's Note: This work was published in "Hoggs Jacobite Relics."  It seems to date to just before September 1715, when Mar raised the Royal standard at Braemar.  The Chevalier was, of course, James Francis Edward Stuart (de jure King James VIII, in exile), 1688-1766; the father of Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie.")