Well, it looks like we never got a completely correct version of these lyrics into the Digital Tradition. Here is what we have. If somebody is willing to post a definitive transcription of the lyrics, plus copyright information, that would be very nice. Post it right here in this thread, complete. Be sure to cite your source, which should be some official, printed transcription of the song (the DT version has some interesting mondegreens, so I suppose it was done by somebody who listened to a recording). I'll make sure it gets into the Digital Tradition.
It would also be nice to have a MIDI. If you e-mail it to me, I'll post it in Mudcat MIDIs.Thanks.
-Joe Offer (click to e-mail)-

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CALEDONIA (2) (current DT version)
(Dougie MacLean)

I don't know if you can see
The changes that have come over me
In these last few days I've been afraid
That I might drift away
So I've been telling old stories, singing songs
That make me think about where I came from
And that's the reason why I seem
So far away today

Oh, but let me tell you that I love you
That I think about you all the time
Caledonia you're calling me
And now I'm going home
If I should become a stranger
You know that it would make me more than sad
Caledonia's been everything
I've ever had

Now I have moved and I've kept on moving
Proved the points that I needed proving
Lost the friends that I needed losing
Found others on the way
I have kissed the ladies and left them crying
Stolen dreams, yes there's no denying
I have traveled hard with coattails flying
Somewhere in the wind

(Chorus)
Now I'm sitting here before the fire
The empty room, the forest choir
The flames that could not get any higher
They've withered now they've gone
But I'm steady thinking my way is clear
And I know what I will do tomorrow
When the hands are shaken and the kisses flow
Then I will disappear

Copyright 1982 Plant Life Music Ltd.
@home @Scots
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