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Thread #70136 Message #1198676
Posted By: Jim McLean
02-Jun-04 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
Subject: Lyr Add: THESE ARE MY MOUNTAINS (J Copeland)
PS. You can find the words and melody at http://ingeb.org/songs/forfamea.html
THESE ARE MY MOUNTAINS by J Copeland Publisher Peers Music Ltd
1.For fame and for fortune, I wandered the earth And now I've come back to This land of my birth I've brought back my treasures But only to find They're less than the pleasures I first left behind
For these are my mountains, And this is my glen The braes of my childhood, Will know me again No land's ever claimed me, Tho'far I did roam For these are my mountains, And I'm going home.
2.The burn by the road sings, at my going by The whaup o'er the head wings With welcoming cry The loch where the scart flies At last I can see Its here where my heart lies It's here I'll be free Chorus
3.Kind faces will greet me And welcome me in And how they will greet me My ain kith and kin This night round the ingle Old songs will be sung At last I'll be hearing My ain mother tongue.