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Oh Hebrides, oh Hebrides
Whence came the men who named thee
Rising gaunt out northern sea
Cold mists as garments swathing
Isle’s of the sea do you proclaim
For all the world to ponder
The origins of your name
Ties to a land no longer
A legacy, a standing stone
Does your name reveal your history
To make this place their northern home
Did the sons of Heber journey
Was this the place the prophet spoke
Isles of the west so misty
Another place, appointed hope
That His people dwell in safety
And south across Hebridean sea
An ancient Isle does link thee
Is Hibernia your testimony
To the clans who claimed thee
Is Ulster’s hand from distant past
Is Zarah father of your Kings
A wrist held in scarlet fast
That still a battle brings
And Olam Foddah on Emerald isle
Was Jeremiah your real name
Did the princess with you fly
From oppressors sword and flame
Was the tender twig of that royal house
Grafted into Ulster’s vine
Does the Lion espouse
The lineage of David’s Line
And Olam Foddah on Emerald isle
Was Jeremiah your real name
Did the princess with you fly
From oppressors sword and flame
Was the tender twig of that royal house
Grafted into Ulster’s vine
Does the Lion espouse
The lineage of David’s Line
Stonehenge eternal legacy
To Druids ancient purpose
Was Levi’s ephod on their robes
And three in one Celtic worship
Were you true to Him alone
Not pagan priests as some decry
Did your ceremony show
Your origins in Sinai
Unhewn stone royal destiny’s throne
Are you full of dreams from Bethel
From you did desert waters flow
To quench a thirsty people
Were you overturned and overturned
From Lia Fail to Scone
And overturned once more
Westminster your last home
The Scots did they from Scythia come
By Spain and the pillars of Hercules
To settle in their highland home
Does Abroath declare their ancestry
But whence their fathers Scythian home
Was that north of Assyria
To where the sons of Omri moved
When Media rose in power
Out of Assyria’s suzerainty
The northern tribes, the Kimbri
The house of Omri’s journey
From captivity to liberty
Across the wilds the first not last
Did you travel thence from Uri
Is Wales an echo from the past
Are you that ancient Cymbri
Saxon tribes from northern lands
Are you children of the patriarch
Is the name you carry as your brand
Remembered sons of Isaac
Did you rise through Caucus pass
Where split you from your brethren
Until you conquered here at last
The foe forgotten cousins
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The Angles, Jutes and Frisians came
The bull their tribal symbol
Was that the one of Bashan’s fame
Which in their tongue is Aegel
Now as known colloquially
The John Bull of old England
Is that a reference to idolatry
In the land of your departing
Norman lords then overran
To rule here laid they claim
Was the wolf emblem of their clan
Spoken of in Mitsrayim
Were you really Viking
Were you the last of our kin
To rejoin your blood and type
The family finally gathered in
To make this nation one in might
A planned and purposed destiny
Was the war of roses red and white
The welding in of Ephraim
Spoken of in Talmud’s words
Does the testament report
That this Nation will be one
And ruled under one accord
When James the sixth on Scotland’s throne
Became the first of England
Did he know from whence we came
When he combined the emblems
St Andrews cross and Georges sign
The Union Jack renown
Was this the union of Jacob’s line
As James to all announced
When James the sixth on Scotland’s throne
Became the first of England
Did he know from whence we came
When he combined the emblems
St Andrews cross and Georges sign
The Union Jack renown
Was this the union of Jacob’s line
As James to all announced
This royal line from Ulsters throne
This people made one nation
Are you the ones the world has known
Mentors of civilisation
The prophet spoke the sceptre stays
In Kings and Queens of David
Till him to whom it is of right
Shiloh comes to claim it
In that ancient book prophetic
Was your story there foretold
That your troops be arrayed in scarlet
And the sea lanes you would hold
As chief among the nations
That Great would be your name
No foreign power would dominate
But you would conquer same
Did it say that north and west
To the Isles you would roam
The lion and unicorn your symbol
To give the alien a home
That you would abolish slavery
And be ruled over by a King
Be a mission to the whole world
And a commonwealth of kin
Bryith their word for covenant
And ish their word for man
Ain a place reserved
A green and pleasant land
Are these the covenant people
According to His plan
These Bryith-ish residing
In this their Bryith-ain
Oh Hebrides, oh Hebrides
Do you declare our history
Does our British lineage define
The Anglo Saxon mystery
Are we brothers sisters all
From John O Groats to Lands End
Are we the Hebridean legacy
The people of His right hand
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