Whilst standing before
The Cockstane of
Finegand
Surrounded by woods
With tall leafy
bough
I heard in the days
Long ago gone
before us
A legend so grand
Of the MacOmish
clan
****
They tell
of how when
One night ‘o so gloomy
When all
of the town folk
Had called it a day
In
middle of night
With no moon there ‘a
showing
A rooster flew top
Of the rock and
did crow
****
Was strange
why this cock
Should be calling so early
The
dawn of the day
Was so far away
But cock he
did cry
And was so alarming
It woke all the
village
In beds where they lay
****
Arise from
your sleep,
'O village of Finegand
Arise
from your sleep,
Can’t you hear the cock
crow
Arise from your sleep,
'O clan of
MacOmish
Arise from your sleep,
To the rock
you must go
****
So grabbed
they their weapons
Of warfare to carry
With
dirk and the broadsword
To rock men did
run
And gathered they near
To see this
strange going
But cock stopped ’a
crowing
When all had got there
****
They waited
for hours
To see what was coming
Surely this
cock
Had forewarned them of doom
Near to the
point
Of calling an ending
When strange
sounds they heard
From the deep darken
wood
****
Arise from
your sleep,
'O village of Finegand
Arise
from your sleep,
Can’t you hear the cock
crow
Arise from your sleep,
'O clan of
MacOmish
Arise from your sleep,
To the rock
you must go
