Eleventh Earl Of Mar Lyrics

Lyric discussion by timbo.h 

Cover art for Eleventh Earl Of Mar lyrics by Genesis

based on the true story of the 11th earl of mar, who was some imporant person at a young age and a bit of brat with it too!

@timbo.h I've heard that Rutherford was inspired by "Flight of the heron" by D.K Broster. I'm reading that book now, and it's about the 1745-Jacobite uprising, not the one in 1715. By the way, the opening line of the book is the same as the song's: "The sun had been up for a couple of hours..."