Saor - Guardians lyrics

The hue of her waters is crimsoned with slaughters And the blood of the martyrs has reddened the clay And dark desolation broods over the nation For the faithful are perished, the good are away On the mountains of heather they slumber together On the wastes of the moorland their bodies decay How sound is their sleeping, how safe is their keeping Though far from their kindred they molder away Oh, never to perish, their names let us cherish The martyrs of Scotland that now are away