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Thread #169525   Message #4097116
Posted By: Daniel Kelly
11-Mar-21 - 03:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Dark Loch
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Dark Loch
Thanks to John Hamill for sending me the full lyrics and chords.

The Dark Loch by Alistair Hulett

D          G         D Bm          D       A       D
Neither at our own time or to the place of our own choosing
       G                D Bm         A       G      D
The children of the dark loch, were scattered in the wind

       C          D            G         D
While God in his heaven, all mercy was refusing,
      G             D       Bm
We endured the wrath of a young God,
A               G          D
Against who’s laws we’ve sinned

         G               D          Bm
And one by one we’ve scratched our names,
       G       Em       Bm       A
On the broken teeth of shattered walls,
    Bm      G          Em    Bm
And bid fareweel to the dark loch
             A      G    D
Where the lonely curlew calls

Like waves the sheep rolled in, When they drove us from the glenside
A thousand years of parting, Declare when none but ours,

Bold Geordies kilted henchmen, Fell upon us like a landslide,
And the children of the dark loch, Were trampled down like withered flowers

Chorus

With targe, dirk and sword, Ow’r young men knew no equal
By such the wealth of chieftains, Is measured on the field

But in the day of clearing, and treacherous betrayal,
By the hand of our own kinsman, The Bailiffs writ was sealed

Chorus

Out rough on Glesca Green, our bairns and wives are lying,
The children of the Dark Loch, like beggars win their bread,

Skeletons in tartan, from foul diseases dying,
Took kindness from the stranger, In the blackened hour of need

And one by one we scratched our names, Ontae the rock of Glesga’s pride
John heilan man tak up yer pipes, and skirl the ballant O’Red Clyde

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