{"id":965,"date":"2020-05-12T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=965"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:53:06","slug":"it-was-a-for-our-rightful-king-trad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"It Was A&#8217; For Our Rightful King. (Trad)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It was a&#8217; for our rightful king<\/li><li>That we left fair Scotland&#8217;s strand;<\/li><li>It was a&#8217; for our rightful king<\/li><li>We e&#8217;er saw Irish land, my dear,<\/li><li>We e&#8217;er saw Irish land.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Now a&#8217; is done that men can do,<\/li><li>And a&#8217; is done in vain!<\/li><li>My love, and native land, fareweel!<\/li><li>For I maun cross the main, My dear,<\/li><li>For I maun cross the main.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He turn&#8217;d him right and round about,<\/li><li>Upon the Irish shore,<\/li><li>He gave his bridle-reins a shake,<\/li><li>With, Adieu for evermore, My dear!<\/li><li>And adieu for evermore!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The soldier frae the war returns,<\/li><li>And the merchant frae the main.<\/li><li>But I hae parted frae my love,<\/li><li>Never to meet again, My dear,<\/li><li>Never to meet again.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When day is gone and night is come,<\/li><li>And a&#8217; folk bound to sleep,<\/li><li>I think on him that&#8217;s far awa<\/li><li>The lee-lang night, and weep, My dear,<\/li><li>The lee-lang night, and weep.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a&#8217; for our rightful king That we left fair Scotland&#8217;s strand; It was a&#8217; for our rightful king We e&#8217;er saw Irish land, my dear, We e&#8217;er saw Irish land. Now a&#8217; is done that men can do, And a&#8217; is done in vain! My love, and native land, fareweel! For I maun &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Was A&#8217; For Our Rightful King. (Trad)&#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-965","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\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}