Mary Black - Both Sides The Tweed

What's the springbreathing jasmine and rose
What's the summer with all its gay train
Or the splendour of autumn to those
Who've bartered their freedom for gain
Let the love of our land's sacred rights
To the love of our people succeed
Let friendship and honour unite
And flourish on both sides the Tweed
No sweetness the senses can cheer
Which corruption and bribery bind
No brightness that gloom can e'er clear
For honour's the sum of the mind
Let virtue distinguish the brave
Place riches in lowest degree
Think them poorest who can be a slave
Them richest who dare to be free
What's the springbreathing jasmine and rose
What's the summer with all its gay train
Or the splendour of autumn to those
Who've bartered their freedom for gain
Let the love of our land's sacred rights
To the love of our people succeed
Let friendship and honour unite
And flourish on both sides the Tweed
No sweetness the senses can cheer
Which corruption and bribery bind
No brightness that gloom can e'er clear
For honour's the sum of the mind
Let virtue distinguish the brave
Place riches in lowest degree
Think them poorest who can be a slave
Them richest who dare to be free
Mary Black Both Sides of Tweed

Mary Black - Both Sides The Tweed (with lyrics)

"Both Sides The Tweed" is song which was a protest song attacking the 1707 Act of Union against the British. Dick Gaughan reworked it & added a new tune in ...

CAPERCAILLIE Both Sides The Tweed 1992

From the 1991/92 Hogmanay Live BBC Scotland broadcast, this is Capercaillie's version of Dick Gaughan's song originally to be found on his 1980 album ...

DICK GAUGHAN Both Sides The Tweed, with Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham

From a 1989 edition of "Aly Bain and Friends", this is a great version of Gaughan's song from the 1980 "Handful of Earth" album.

Dick Gaughan--Both sides the Tweed

Dick Gaughan is a Scottish musician, singer, and songwriter, particularly of folk and social protest songs. Gaughan took up the guitar at the age of seven.

Mary Black

Mary Black