LA LIJA - Johnny Cope Lyrics

Cope sent a challenge fei Dunbar
""Sayins Cherlie, meet me an ye dare,
I'll learn you the arts of war
If you meet me in the morning.""

Charlie looked the letter upon
He drew his sword his scabbard from,
""Follow me, my merry men,
We'll meet Johnnie Cope in the morning!""

Hey, Johnnie Cope, are you waking yet,
Are your drums a-beating yet?
If ye were waking, I would wait
To gang to the coals in the morning.

Come now Johnnie, be as good as your word
Come let us try with fire and sword
And didnt flee like a aflected bird
That's chased from its nest in the morning

Johnnie Cope he heard of this
He said to himself it would not be amiss
To have a saddle n horse in readiness
To flee awall in the morning

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Oh Johnnie, now get scamperin'
The Highland bagpipes mak a den
It's better to sleep in your whole skin
It'll be a bloody morning.

Johnnie Cope to Dunbar came
The asked of him, ""Where are your men?""
""The divil confound me gin I ken,
For I left them all in the morning.""

'Now Johnnie, troth, ye werena blate
To come wi' news o' your ain defeat,
And leave your men in sic a strait
Sae early in the morning.

'I' faith,' quo' Johnnie, 'I got sic flegs
Wi' their claymores an' philabegs;
If I face them again, deil break my legs!
Sae I wish s you a' gude morning'.