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Thread #166185   Message #3993959
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-May-19 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: By the Shores of Loch Maree- D Williamson
Subject: Lyr Add: BY THE SHORES OF LOCH MAREE (Ina Miller)
My transcription from Spotify:

BY THE SHORES OF LOCH MAREE
As recorded by Ina Miller on "Bonnie Wee Hoose on the Hillside" (1982)

When my heart is filled with yearning
And I'm lonely as can be,
Then my thoughts are always turning
To the shores of Loch Maree.

It was there one day I found her
And we laughed so vehemently(?), [it sounds like "vehently"]
And the beauty all around her
Was not half so fair as she.

And there we sat till the day was ending
Till the moonlight was there to see,
And we knew we must be wending
Each our way from Loch Maree.

How we planned for future meetings!
Oh, what joy there was to be!
But our happiness was fleeting
By the shores of Loch Maree.

Far away my fate has led me,
Far across the rolling sea,
Far from her and all she pledged me
By the shores of Loch Maree.

The years have gone but I've loved no other.
None so fair has appeared to me
As the dear one I discovered
By the shores of Loch Maree.

Now today has brought a picture.
It has come across the sea,
And the picture shows a wedding
But the bride was not for me.

There she is and shyly smiling
To the bridegroom by her side,
And my heart she's still beguiling
For my love has never died.

Yet though it seems she has gone forever,
Faithful now I no more may be.
In my dreams we are still together
By the shores of Loch Maree,
By the shores of Loch Maree.