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The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) (16 April 1746) was the final clash between the French-supported Jacobites and the Hanoverian British Government in the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Culloden dealt the Jacobite cause—to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain—a decisive defeat. It was the last battle ever to be fought on British soil.

Video clips from: "The National Trust of Scotland" audio-visual film & from "Culloden" (1964, Peter Watkins writer & director).

Singer is Mary Dillon.

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Chorus:

Cold the wind on the moors blow.
Warm the enemy's fire glows.
Like the harvest of Culloden,
Pain and fear and death grow.

1. 'Twas love of our prince drove us on to Drumossie,
But in scarcely the time that it takes me to tell
The flower of our country lay scorched by an army
As ruthless and red as the embers of hell.

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2. Red Campbell the Fox did the work of the English.
McDonald in anger did no work at all.
With musket and cannon 'gainst honour and courage.
The invader's men stood while our clansmen did fall.

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3. Nine mothers and children were left to their weeping,
With only the memory of father and son.
Turned out of their homes to make shelter for strangers,
The blackest of hours on this land has begun.

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