Lyr ADD: Across the Hills of Home (Eric Bogle)

Subject: Lyr. Request--Bogle: Across the Hills of Hom
From:
Date: 30 Apr 98 - 10:29 AM

I have fallen in love w/ Eric Bogle's , but can't understand all the lyrics. Can anyone help out?

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Subject: Lyr req: Bogle-Across the Hills of Home
From: bbc
Date: 24 Feb 99 - 05:08 PM

I made this request last April & got no responses. Can anyone help me now? I love the song, but can't understand a few of the words on Bogle's recording. Thanks!

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Subject: RE: Lyr req: Bogle-Across the Hills of Home
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Feb 99 - 04:31 PM

G'day bbc,

Could you give us a few more clues? I can't place any of Wee Eric's songs with those exact words. Obviously, he is very well-known for his songs 'No Man's Land' and Band Played Waltzing Matilda" but he has written many songs. they aren't always known by his original titles and the opening lines would be a great help.

I must admit that the line "Across the Hills of Home" keeps reminding me of the Andy Stewart pop hit of the 1960s - "The Scottish Soldier".

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Bogle-Across the Hills of Home
From: bbc
Date: 25 Feb 99 - 07:20 PM

Hi, Bob,

I have the song (what I listed is the title) on a CD called "The Eric Bogle Songbook". It says it is from his recording, "Something of Value" & is based on a poem by James MacArthur. It's a beautiful song. The chorus goes "You take the low road; I'll take the high; and back to Scotland, my spirit will fly, to see thee more more time before I die. You take the low road and I'll take the high." I'd love to sing it, but there are a few words scattered through it which I simply can't understand. Any help would be appreciated.

bbc

Subject: Lyr Add: ACROSS THE HILLS OF HOME (JIMMY'S SONG)
From: rich r
Date: 25 Feb 99 - 07:30 PM

ACROSS THE HILLS OF HOME (Jimmy's Song)

Words by Eric Bogle & James McArthur, Music by Eric Bogle. 1988 (Larrikin Music Pty. Ltd.

Where wide the Murrumbidgee flows
The stately gum and watle grows,
And deep within the forests tall
The laughing Kookaburra's call
Across the miles and down the years
I dream my eyes too old for tears
Of other scenes more fair than these
And I chase a heather scented breeze
Across the huills of home.

CH:
You take the low road, I'll take the high.
And back to Scotland my spirit will fly
To see her one more time before I die
You take the low road and I'll take the high.

And when the mists of evening rise
To hide the starlight in the skies
My heart withlonging sadness fills
To see again the Scottish hills
Once more as in my boyhood days,
I roam the bracken covered braes
And hear them singing in the glen
"Will ye no' come back again"
Across the hills of home.

CH

Fast flows the river, faster still
The days of youth that never will
Return, Now only dreams remain
Of purple hills and fields of grain
But I still hear across the miles
The haunting calls of misty isles
Above the tidal water's roar,
But I know that I shall go no more
Across the hills of home.

CH

rich r

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Bogle-Across the Hills of Home
From: bbc
Date: 25 Feb 99 - 09:08 PM

Oh, Rich, thank you *so* much! Now, the mysteries are cleared up; can't wait to sing it! BTW, folks, if my message looked like it was missing a few words, I (mistakenly) put my titles in brackets. I suspect that was read as HTML lingo. Sigh.

bbc

Subject: Across the hills of home
From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 08:09 AM

Hello, my name is Tom Hamilton. I am looking for the wordsto an Eric Bogle song called 'Across the hills of home.'

So if anyone can help in anyway, I would really grateful.

Thanks again Tom

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Across the hills of home
From: Greyeyes
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 09:00 AM

If you type across the hills of home into the Digitrad & Forum search box at the top of the thread list you will get a list of threads in which this song is mentioned, including this thread (click) which has the lyrics.

Incidentally the son is actually a poem written by James MacArthur, which Bogle set to music and added a bit extra. The lyrics are credited to both of them.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Across the hills of home
From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 06:10 AM

Thanks Greyeyes.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Across the Hills of Home (Eric Bogle)
From:
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 11:39 PM

I'm looking for a song that Eric Bogle wrote. I cannot find the words anywhere. I thought it was called No Mans Land, but that is basically Willie McBride. The song started out something like this...

......on Christmas Day
on the Western front, the guns all died away
Lying in the mud on bags of sand
We heard the germans sing from No mans land....

The chorus go on like this....

Silent Night, no cannons roar...a King is born of peace forever more
Alls calm alls bright all brothers hand in hand...
A soldiers song of peace.....etc..

Do you know where I can find the words to this song? If you do, can you please email me as soon as you can. My name is Sean, and my email address is [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Across the Hills of Home (Eric Bogle)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 12:30 AM

No Man's Land is the title that Eric Bogle gave his own song, though it has often been called Willie McBride (and other things) by people who thought they knew better than the man who wrote it.

That isn't relevant to your question, though. Neither is Bogles's song Across the Hills of Home, which is a poem written by one James MacArthur, which Bogle set to music, and which has nothing to do with the Great War.

The song you are looking for, judging by the lines you quote, isn't one of Eric's at all, but is Cormac McConnell's Christmas 1914; one of a great many songs written relatively recently about that event. There is some doubt about the title, it seems, and it has been posted here two or three times; once as Christmas 1915. When so many songs are written on the same subject, I suppose that confusion is bound to arise. So far as I know, he himself called it Christmas in the Trenches, but several other people have written songs by that title too, of course.

There are quite a lot of songs posted round here, and you can find most of them by typing a phrase into the search engine that you'll find on the main Forum page. I found McConnell's, for instance, by searching for on bags of sand, but several other approaches would have given the same result.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Across the Hills of Home (Eric Bogle)
From: bbc
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:07 AM

Clicking on the title from Malcolm's post takes one to another thread which gives the lyrics to Across the Hills of Home. Thanks to both Malcolm & rich r for your help w/ my request! Haunting song, that.

best,

bbc

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Across the Hills of Home (Eric Bogle)
From: GUEST,Nancy
Date: 25 Jul 18 - 11:39 AM

If you're still looking,

http://www.yourchords.com/627292/Eric-Bogle/Across-The-Hills-Of-Home-Chords/