Both Sides The Tweed

Words trad, amended by Dick Gaughan/Music: Dick Gaughan

What's the spring-breathing 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?

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Let the love of our land's sacred rights
To the love of our people succeed.
Let friends 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.

Chorus

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.

Chorus