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Correct Òran Ailein / Leaving Strathconon Lyrics
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Correct Òran Ailein / Leaving Strathconon
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Oran Ailein Alan's Song Teine oidhche geamhradh 'Nar sheasamh air an lar Sheinn sinn oran Ailein Seist is rann 's an treana ruith cho taibhseil Mar cuimhne tron ghleann 's iomadh loit nach tig slan --ooo-- By the fire of a winter's night Standing around the floor We sang Alan's song Verse and chorus And the train ran so ghostly Like a memory, through the glen There are many wounds that do not heal Leaving Strathconon We're the emigrant ones, not the last in the line You're your father's son, and I am mine And all of our northwords turn distant and small In the end they mean nothing, no- nothing at all Right here's the river's source, and it flows out to the world And the heart of Caledonia is drowning in its flood Was there hunger in our striving, did the light shine in our dark Was everything we ever needed always right here from the start [Chorus] Please believe me Something in me died Leaving Strathconon And your mountains behind Please believe me Something in me died Leaving Strathconon And your father's home behind We stood on a hundred gangways, that's the way it's always been I walked out beyond Calvary with all my kith and kin In the war of the worlds we conquer and roam Lie the wounds that stay bleeding and raw in the soul [Chorus] After the raging flame, the embers burn slow We're leaving, leaving, leaving, 'til there's nowhere left to go The seas, the slums, the battlefields, the shipyards, the tides The straths, the glens, the drove roads, all the prairies and the mines It's a still, autumn morning, and it covers Loch Meig And all the trees across the valley in a blaze of dying green I've seen too many tail-lights, didn't need to say goodbye We're just souls across a shrinking world in a distant starlit night [Chorus]
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