Well Catters,
Not done very well with answers to this one, so, I've had a go at working out the chords for myself.
If there is anyone out there that knows the song and plays the guitar, try these chords and let me know what you think. I've put a couple of question marks over the words I couldn't quite understand from the CD and I'm sure that Robin Laing's chords will be somewhat different to my simplistic version, but it seems to work for me:-
Carmichael Mill
(Robin Laing)
Chorus
C F C
Down by the Clyde there's a bonny place
G C
Where stands Carmichael Mill
F C
And the evening sun sometimes hides his face
G
In the shadow of Tinto Hill
C F C
Slowly the river turns and steers
Am G
Life is awoven with joys and tears
C F
And time is measured in hundreds of years
C G C
But the Mill's standing Still
For forty years the old mill lay asleep
Rotting and rusting in shadows so deep
And over the cogs spiders would creep
And the water wheel stood still
The slates and the gutters were broken and sad
We live in a time of fashion and fad
And we never knew the treasure we had
Laying at Carmichael Mill
The heart of the mill gladly remains
Scratched on the beams are stories names
These were the men with braun and brains
And the long generations of skill ?
Now the bright water runs through the glade
In the machinery music is played
And the sound of the past is a sweet serenade
To the men who built Carmichael Mill
?
From the Dire/Dark water to where the cart spills
The Clyde gathers streams from the moorlands and hills
Enough for the wheels of ten thousand mills
And another ten thousand beside
And though the past is buried and gone
The river's power runs on and on
And a small beam of light to future is shone
On the last wheel mill on the Clyde
Any corrections would be gratefully received
Bagger Alan