In Another Life

Redcoats burned our Highland home

Wife and family up in smoke

I believe someday I'll see them again

I'll greet them in a greener glen

Face the north wind flags unfold

I'll fight for a clan of one truth told

Not afraid to die not afraid to go

Tell them I'm returning home

To another life

Unearth the sword I foreswore to use

When all is lost there's nothing to lose

Hunger and thirst are nothing to me

I'll bend to no man on my knee

Keen my glance, sharpen my blade

They'll learn a different tune today

Tread softly for you tread on my grave

Drums in the clouds, pipers play

In another life

Some men sell their country for gold

Sell their children, squander their soul

Keep your council while others rave

The loudest tongues easily betrayed

I dream standing up when I have the time

Drowned by an English hand

Bury me quick, bury me still

In yon riverbed if fate wills

In another life