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Old World Rules And Empire Takes

from SKAIL by Malcolm MacWatt

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“Old World Rules and Empire Takes” looks at British rule over the Eastern seaboard of America. It touches on the Battle of Kings Mountain, a crucial skirmish in the War of American Independence, where forces for the Crown, led by Major Patrick Ferguson from Aberdeenshire, were defeated by settlers, many of whom would also have been of Scottish descent. The song ends with the line “Scottish blood in American clay” to acknowledge those trans-Atlantic ties.

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I soldiered for John Company
I killed for them and they paid me
A Highlander ‘neath a British flag
I served my time then packed my bags

​The Appalachians marked the line
Where I lived free on the western side
I’ve killed white and I've killed red
To sleep at home in my Tennessee bed

CH: From the icy north of the Hudson Bay
To the southern shores of the Everglades
Peaks and valleys, fields and lakes
Where Old World rules and empire takes

​I took oaths to king and queen
Promises I could not keep
For tyrant crown I do not stand
Now I’m an Overmountain Man

​So when Ferguson marched his men
I joined and rode with Shelby then
In Carolina we fought and died
Loyalty on either side

​My musket ball was one of seven
To claim the life of Ferguson
In Caroline we fought and died
The Battle of Kings Mountainside

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from SKAIL, released July 4, 2020

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota ... more

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