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Thread #20690   Message #1103956
Posted By: GUEST,Boab
28-Jan-04 - 10:25 PM
Thread Name: Scottish music-hall songs
Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
There was a not-so-well known Scottish musichall performer by the name of Phil Barker whose work I heard on an old 45 "windie-up" gramophone when I was a young "shaver" during WW11. He had a number which stuck with me. Anybody heard of it?
"The Load has been Lifted"

"For many years I've been away
Ive sailed across the sea,
To distant lands sae far beyond the foam;
But tho' I prospered well enough, it never seemed tae me
That I could ever feel myself at home
I missed the hearty handshakes o' the friends I used to know
I longed to see the heather on the hill;
I ne'er forgot I was a Scot, wherever I did roam--
My heart was here---my heart is with you still!

"Now the load has been lifted, the birds sing their song
My heart is brimmin over with joy-
For I'm back again--hame again where I belong,
Wi' my ain folk I loved as a boy.

There's another verse, which I won't set down unless somebody requests it.