[Verse 1]

Farewell ye dark and lonely hills

Far awa beneath the sky

MacPherson's time will naw be lang

On yonder gallows tree

[Chorus]

Sae wantonly, sae dauntinly

Sae rantinly gaed he

O' he played a tune and he danced it aroond

Below the gallows tree

[Verse 2]

It was by a woman's treacherous hauns

That I was condemned tae dee

And upon a ledge on a window she stood

And a blanket she threw ower me

[Chorus]

Sae wantonly, sae dauntinly

Sae rantinly gaed he

O' he playеd a tune and he danced it aroond

Bеlow the gallows tree

[Verse 3]

Well some hae come tae see me dee

And some tae buy my fiddle

But before that I dae part wi her

I'll brak her through the middle

[Chorus]

Sae wantonly, sae dauntinly

Sae rantinly gaed he

O' he played a tune and he danced it aroond

Below the gallows tree

[Verse 4]

Well he took his fiddle in tae bathe of his hands

And he brak it ower a stane

Singing, "Nae ither will play on thee

When I am dead and gane"

[Chorus]

Sae wantonly, sae dauntinly

Sae rantinly gaed he

O' he played a tune and he danced it aroond

Below the gallows tree

[Verse 5]

The reprieve it came fae the Brig o' Banff

For tae set MacPherson free

But they brang the clock tae a quarter to one

And they hanged him fae a tree

[Chorus]

Sae wantonly, sae dauntinly

Sae rantinly gaed he

O' he played a tune and he danced it aroond

Below the gallows tree