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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
(chord spacing will be off unless you paste this into a fixed-width font document)