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Andy M. Stewart - I Mourn For The Highlands Lyrics

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  • I mourn for the Highlands, now drear and forsaken
  • The lands of my fathers the gallant and brave
  • To make room for the sportsmen, their lands were all taken
  • And they had to seek out new homes far away
  • Oh shame on the tyrants who brought desolation
  • Who banished the brave and put sheep in their place
  • Where once smiled the gardens rank weeds in their station
  • And deer are preferred to the leal-hearted braves
  • Oh where are the parents and bairns yonder rovin
  • The scene o' their gladness is far o'er the main
  • No blithe-hearted milk-maid now cheers at the gloaming
  • The herd-boy no longer seen on the plain
  • But the lark is still soaring; she sings in her glory
  • With no one to listen her sweet morning lay
  • The clansmen are gone, but their deeds live in story
  • Like chaff in the wind, they were borne far away
  • This may actually be "The Highland Clearances" (which it's obviously
  • About) from Silly Wizard's So Many Partings -- but I only have it on
  • Vinyl and my turntable's dead.

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