Lyr Add: The Dark Loch

Subject: Lyr Add: The Dark Loch - Alistair Hulett
From: Daniel Kelly
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 06:31 AM

I cannot find the lyrics to this song by Alistair Hulett anywhere, and they aren't in the album liner notes that I have. Would be grateful for any corrections folks may have to offer, marked with (?) where I have no idea.

Tyna(?) at our own time,
Up to the place of our own choosing
The children of the Dark Loch
Were scattered in the wind

While god in his heaven,
All mercy was refusing,
We endured the wrath,
Of a young god,
Against whose laws we’d sinned

And one by one we scratched our names,
On the broken teeth of shattered walls,
And bid farewell to the Dark Loch
Where the lonely curlew calls,

Like waves the sheep rolled in,
When they drove us from the Glenside,
A thousand of years of parting (?)
Declared were non but ours


Bold Jordie ’s (??) 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
Our 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 kinsmen
The bailiffs writ was sealed.

Chorus

The grass (?) on Glasgow Green
Our bairns and wives are lying
The children of the Dark Loch
Like beggars (?)

Sallatines (?) and Tartan
From foul disease is dying
To kindness from the stranger
In the blackened hour of need.

And one by one we scratched our names,
On tae the rock of Glasgow’s pride
John Feelin (?) man, take up your fight
And scow the ballant (?) of Red Clyde

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Dark Loch
From: GUEST,#
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 08:33 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l05bVIWuM9A

The song starts at about 2:40 or so. I'm busy for a bit but I'll try to get back to it today, no promises.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Dark Loch
From: Daniel Kelly
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 03:45 AM

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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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Dark Loch
From: Daniel Kelly
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 03:45 AM

And my recording here.