This tune is in a 3/4 time.
Three beats for each chord change. 'Spring' is on the first beat of the bar. In the chorus, 'Love' is on the first beat in the first line.
(-) Am C F Dm
What's the Spring breathin' jasmine and rose?
C Am Em G
What's the Summer with all its gay train?
Am C F Dm
Or the splendour of Autumn to those
C G Am Am
Who've bartered their freedom for gain?
Chorus:
F F Em G
Let the love of our land's sacred rights
Am F Em G
To the love of our people succeed
Am C F Dm
Let friendship and honour unite
C G Am
And flourish on both sides the Tweed.
Instrumental 3-bar break before next verse:
Two bars of Am, then a Dsus4 pulled down to an Fsharp-E-Fsharp
pull off hammer on triplet, final beat plain D chord before
a hiatus and drop back to the Am of the next verse
No sweetness the senses can cheer
Which corruption and bribery blind
No brightness that gloom can ere clear
For honour's the sun of the mind
chorus
Let virtue distinguish the brave
Place riches in lowest degree
Think them poorest who can be a slave
Them richest who dares to be free
chorus