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Debra Cowan - The Long Grey Line (Alan Hunter) Lyrics

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  • You were born to decent city folk
  • In a hoose wi’ a country name
  • And you walked the streets your faither walked
  • Ta grow up just the same
  • And ye worked in school and ye kept the rule
  • And ye cried the tinker doon
  • ‘Cause he’d spend his time on the Long Grey Line
  • Wouldna be tied to toon
  • Spend his time on the Long Grey Line
  • Wouldna be tied to toon
  • So ye worked hard in a college room
  • Career was aye in mind
  • But ye never got doon tae travelling roon
  • Ye said there’s always time
  • And ye never gave one moment’s thought
  • Tae what it means to be free
  • Or the tinker’s time on the long grey line
  • And the sights that a tinker sees
  • Or the tinker’s time on the long grey line
  • And the sights that a tinker sees
  • Then ye bought a wee hoose and ye settled doon
  • A wife and a brace o’ weans
  • And ye watched the things that ye gathered roon
  • Begin tae look like chains
  • Ye began tae doubt but ye stuck it out
  • Working nine tae five
  • While the tinker’s fine on the long grey line
  • Aye keepin’ his dreams alive
  • The tinker’s fine on the long grey line
  • Aye keepin’ his dreams alive
  • Now ye’re looking back on all ye’ve done
  • Seventy years of age
  • On summers come and winters gone
  • When the hoose became a cage
  • Though the comforts count for something now
  • Ye pretend ye dinnae care
  • That ye found nae time for the long grey line
  • With yer hairt cryin’ oot for mair
  • That ye found nae time for the long grey line
  • With yer hairt cryin’ oot for mair
  • Well, there’s mair to life than they teach in the school
  • Mair tae see and hear
  • And mair tae man than o’ patch o’ land
  • In the finnish o’ his years
  • But the saddest sight is the fading light
  • Of a man who’s chance is gone
  • So I’ll gie some time tae the long grey line
  • And I’ll ken when I’m bound for home
  • Gie some time tae the long grey line
  • And I’ll ken when I’m bound for home
  • Gie some time tae the long grey line
  • And I’ll ken when I’m bound for home

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