[
  {
    "title": "209. Song—M’Pherson’s Farewell",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "FAREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong,",
      "  The wretch’s destinie!",
      "M’Pherson’s time will not be long",
      "  On yonder gallows-tree.",
      "",
      "",
      "Chorus.—Sae rantingly, sae wantonly,",
      "  Sae dauntingly gaed he;",
      "He play’d a spring, and danc’d it round,",
      "  Below the gallows-tree.",
      "",
      "",
      "O, what is death but parting breath?",
      "  On many a bloody plain",
      "I’ve dared his face, and in this place",
      "  I scorn him yet again!",
      "        Sae rantingly, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "Untie these bands from off my hands,",
      "  And bring me to my sword;",
      "And there’s no a man in all Scotland",
      "  But I’ll brave him at a word.",
      "        Sae rantingly, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "I’ve liv’d a life of sturt and strife;",
      "  I die by treacherie:",
      "It burns my heart I must depart,",
      "  And not avengèd be.",
      "        Sae rantingly, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright,",
      "  And all beneath the sky!",
      "May coward shame distain his name,",
      "  The wretch that dares not die!",
      "        Sae rantingly, &c."
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  }
]