"Garden Valley" as written by the author: (There are several differences, some of which significantly impact meaning while others seem to me to make the lyric more gracefully worded.


GARDEN VALLEY

Music & Lyrics by Dougie MacLean. Published by Limetree Arts and Music

This is really not my home
Oh where are you my lovely Jenny?
I'm afraid and all alone
There is no peace for me
I'm sitting in the stranger's room
Playing at the stranger's table
Shining empty like the moon
There is no peace for me

CHORUS
But in the darkness struggle cold
I think about a garden valley
Gentle as the leaves unfold
Singing out across the Tay
Distant and so far away
There is no peace for me

I'm blinded by your city lights
I wander through these fearful places
The colours fade to black and white
There is no peace for me
And these are not the friends I know
These are not their smiling faces
A desert that no-one should know
There is no peace for me
CHORUS

Now I know and feel it well
Poor immigrants' deep sunken feeling
Standing at the gates of Hell
There is no peace for me
Burned out by their master's greed
Cruel exile transportation
Robbed of every love and need
There is no peace for me
CHORUS