Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place
well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side
and I cried, cried, cried; the fear a fallen down taken never back the raize ...
and then Craig Marion!
get out wi' ye Claymore out mi pocket a' ran doon, doon the middin stain
picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma feet...
"Never!" he cried, "Never shall it ye get me alive, ye rotten hound of the burnie crew!
Well I snatched fer the blade o' my Claymore cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet.
Aye! A roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall
but as dead, dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken?
Despite the assumed religious implications, "Mother Mary comes to me" literally refers to McCartney's late mother (whose name was Mary), who appeared to him in a dream during the period when he was frantically trying to preserve and direct the Beatles, telling him to ease up and "let it be".