---
title: "Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1795"
tune: "Push about the Jorum"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/does-haughty-gaul-invasion-threat/"
---

# Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?

## Song
Does haughty Gaul invasion threat?  
Then let the louns beware, Sir;  
There’s wooden walls upon our seas,  
And volunteers on shore, Sir:  
The Nith shall run to Corsincon,  
And Criffel sink in Solway,  
Ere we permit a Foreign Foe  
On British ground to rally!  
We’ll ne’er permit a Foreign Foe  
On British ground to rally!

O let us not, like snarling curs,  
In wrangling be divided,  
Till, slap! come in an unco loun,  
And wi’ a rung decide it!  
Be Britain still to Britain true,  
Amang ourselves united;  
For never but by British hands  
Maun British wrangs be righted!  
No! never but by British hands  
Shall British wrangs be righted!

The Kettle o’ the Kirk and State,  
Perhaps a clout may fail in’t;  
But deil a foreign tinkler loun  
Shall ever ca’a nail in’t.  
Our father’s blude the Kettle bought,  
And wha wad dare to spoil it;  
By Heav’ns! the sacrilegious dog  
Shall fuel be to boil it!  
By Heav’ns! the sacrilegious dog  
Shall fuel be to boil it!

The wretch that would a tyrant own,  
And the wretch, his true-born brother,  
Who would set the Mob aboon the Throne,  
May they be damn’d together!  
Who will not sing “God save the King,”  
Shall hang as high’s the steeple;  
But while we sing “God save the King,”  
We’ll ne’er forget The People!  
But while we sing “God save the King,”  
We’ll ne’er forget The People!

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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