{"id":476,"date":"2020-04-30T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=476"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:45:36","slug":"hector-the-hero-j-s-skinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Hector the Hero (J. S. Skinner.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O&#8217;wail for the mighty and battle<br>Loud lift ye the coronach strain<br>For Hector the Hero of deathless fame<br>Will never come back again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lament him, ye mountains of Ross-Shire<br>Your raers be the dew and the rain<br>Ye forests and straths, let the sobbing winds<br>Unburden your grief and pain<br>Lament him ye warm hearted clansmen<br>And mourn for a kinsman so true<br>The pride of the highlands the valiant MacDonald<br>Will never come bach to you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lament him ye sons of old scotia<br>Ye kinsman on many a shore<br>A patriot warrior fearless of foe<br>Has fallen to rise no more<br>Has fallen to rise no more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O&#8217;wail for the mighty and battle<br>Loud lift ye the coronach strain<br>For Hector the Hero of deathless fame<br>Will never come back again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O cherish his triumph and glory<br>On Omdurman&#8217;s death stricken plain<br>His glance like the eagle his heart like the lion<br>His laurels a nation&#8217;s gain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O rest thee brave heart in thy slumber<br>Forgottenshall never be thy name<br>The love and the mercy of heaven be thine<br>Our love thou must ever claim<br>To us thou art Hector tht hero<br>The chivalrous dauntless and true<br>The hills and the glens and the hearts of a nation<br>Re-echo the wail for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Double chorus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O&#8217;wail for the mighty and battle<br>Loud lift ye the coronach strain<br>For Hector the Hero of deathless fame<br>Will never come back again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;wail for the mighty and battleLoud lift ye the coronach strainFor Hector the Hero of deathless fameWill never come back again Lament him, ye mountains of Ross-ShireYour raers be the dew and the rainYe forests and straths, let the sobbing windsUnburden your grief and painLament him ye warm hearted clansmenAnd mourn for a kinsman so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hector the Hero (J. S. Skinner.)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}