Dougie MacLean

We are united now within this ancient wheel We are united in the spirit of the music at our heels On reflection we rebuild and we restore We are as mother nature's children as we dance around the floor CHORUS All together, all as one All together Relen...

I once walked this road with youth as my guide Through field and forest so many places to hide And i sang with the trees for to hold nature near On the start of some journey that seemed so crystal and clear CHORUS But all who wander are not lost we just...

He is the farmer and he turns our tired soil And watches as the water once so cool is brought up to the boil His tired eyes from relentless seasons burn Holds him to his every word and all things still left undone CHORUS Look now there's another page ano...

Forward to gather we share the beam of weathered oak Father to father we lean on every word they spoke Listen how the winds are due to change Look at how the tide it turns again CHORUS They're following another time They're following another time It's...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the brae...

When it's time to bleed then the ones you need Are the ones who stand beside you Not the ones who've flown but the ones who've grown With the peace that's deep inside you CHORUS And I will not let go No I will not let go I will not let go When it's t...

We couldn't be further from home oh no What's left of a journey of tears We cry like the curlew oh Christ save our souls And help hold our fears And it couldn't be darker than this oh no Even with so much light in the sky And the sun burns forever we can...

A tall tree Turn and face the west Oh we're running with the wind A high cliff-top We're waiting with the rest For this journey to begin CHORUS But these broken wings won't fly These broken wings won't fly at all Oh how we laugh But maybe we should...

I'm the child of the Great Cree Nation See me I'm my father's son We live by the Great Bull See me I'm the wild one This morning we are ready To show the Buffalo our knives And by the red of sunset We'll have relieved them of their lives CHORUS Buffa...

I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me In these last few days I've been afraid that I might drift away So I've been telling old stories, singing songs that make me think about where I came from And that's the reason why I seem so far...

From Blair in Athol to Carolina's green and gold this way has found us For times to come and for time that's growing old the days roll around us CHORUS And we'll drink to the wild ones to the laughter of the child ones To the ones who have broken away And...

We are not made of stone We're half way there and half way gone We bend and we believe In the strength of the light in the signs we receive And we are not careful clear We struggle on from year to year And on the waves of our fate We drift like the boat...

It's cold in the alley and it's cold upon the stair But he's got to keep on running, he knows he'll never get there The long night is cruel, he can never go home And he's out on the street and he's feeling so alone CHORUS Oh Lord he is a desperate man T...

They come from a dark place where the sun can never shine They look with a hard face so chilled and serpentine They watch from the skyline for your confidence to thin Paint away all the dangers, they hope you'll stumble in CHORUS But out here no they don...

I have been strengthened me your distant son You fill my sails with winds to move me on And on the swell of the great Atlantic sea I find forgotten roots to steady me CHORUS And now I can be free Within these winds of change It wildly comes to me unfo...

They came down to the merchant city Where the privileged lie and poverty kills They came a long road of pain and pity Where's the sense for the Highland girls? CHORUS Dolina like a little child Dolina with these dreams to fill Dolina hill-run and wild...

Another day almost gone It won't be long 'till you are out of here And you will soon be home Just thank God it's Friday night You know a little bar where you Can disappear quite out of sight CHORUS You don't laugh like you should You don't smile like...

I wish that you could see us Oh it would cheer your weary heart Oh look what's been done We've torn the whole damn thing apart And I wish that we could tell you It didn't have to be so sad And look what's become Of the tragic life you had CHORUS 
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She loves me, she loves me not Where can a simple island boy begin? This Highland pride is all I've got But in the darkness it means everything It makes me one with the tide It makes me strong when I'm burning inside CHORUS Standing here on Cadderley...

To chase the reasons we are stranded one by one What did we expect to find here? What did we expect to find? Ragged strands of freedom We trust to the forces that move us along Revealing the time of wild growing fears Of restless made rhyme of innocent y...

Change crashes down Around my family of the mountains Newer ways have come People talk about things they could never know And as the old ones look around At what's been left for them they see The land they gently touched It's tethered now to the rich ma...

The new day enters through the dawn Revealing all we need to see It thunders as it moves us on Then disappears so perfectly CHORUS It can never last, that shining light It burns into a fading glow And as we watch the time fold on We hold and then we m...

You'll find me sitting at this table with my friend Fin and my friend John My friend Murdaney tells us stories of things long gone lone gone And we may take a glass together the whisky makes it all so clear It fires our dulled imagination and I feel so near...

This is really not my home Oh where are you my lovely Jenny? I'm afraid and all alone There is no peace for me I'm sitting in the stranger's room Playing at the stranger's table Shining empty like the moon There is no peace for me CHORUS But in the d...

There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In every hour that passes, O What signifies the life o' man, An' 'twere na for the lasses, O. Ref.: Green grow the rashes, O Green grow the rashes, O The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent among the lasses,...

Here are the changes we hoped would never come And all the other great mistakes compounded into one A heaven for the hunger, a poison for the pain Until pieces of the strength to dream are all that will remain CHORUS For hearts can never hide, can never...

The time has come the light is leaving and what was sure will soon be gone And what was certain falls and fades away And though we search the fields are empty and through the forest there's not a sign The words we shared we can no longer say CHORUS They hid...

In these tired and troubled times it's easy to feel afraid The angry young man and the castles that he's made In these long and empty days it's easy to feel the fool The angry young man he'll break every rule CHORUS She comes to me like a high flying sea...

It's in the darkness of believing It's in the shadows where we have to stand Beside the loving and the grieving Oh I'll never understand It's in the way it has to reach us It's in the restless of the shifting sand And all the truth it has to teach us Oh...

Out adrift with all uncertainty Stranded in the years that have betrayed you And your dignity had gone What to do but stand and shout against the wind Shout against the wind CHORUS You have found a home in the centre of the circle You have found a home...

You're a stranger to these hills And you've come uphere to end your days You love our running rivers And you love our quaint little Highland ways You sold your house in the city You put it on the market and you did so good Now you've bought a little pi...

A royal king a shinning knight To lead us through this bloody fight To search for all the golden bell To ring through all his citadel CHORUS The broken promises The truth they hide The lies they feed to us That kill us from inside As into the flames...

It stands within a time of dreams Engraven stone on which it seems Ten thousand naked hands have drawn an endless line Where man and earth were more than one With fire, water, moon and sun We touch it and were centred in this place and time CHORUS They...

All the way across the southern Pacific Lost our on some Brazilian plain The lady runs like a river The lady she runs just like a hurricane CHORUS And it fascinates me when she comes into the light It fascinates me - she hides when she must stay out of...

It was one summer morning when an old friend called in He said I'm going to build a big house for all the little children And I've sold all I had because of things I have seen It's just the good and the bad nothing in between CHORUS And it's not for me...

I close my eyes and she is with me now A little smile across this wrinkled brow And opening and hoping she will always be Just the same for you as it's the same for me Sweet mystery CHORUS Just a little thunder, just a little fear It won't be long 'til...

I see your tired and empty eyes and the pain of a life that's broken Little darling though everybody tries, no the door it will never open CHORUS Let her go, let her go Set her free and let her go Her mother whispers soft and low Just set her free and l...

Here we are my little darlings With things we dare not bear to know Strengthen your hearts my little charmings You've got a long long way to go CHORUS And the little ones they must walk on walk on The little ones must walk on walk on It has no reason i...

I’ve got to tell you To say the things I’ll find so hard to say When I’ve got to go away I’ve got this feeling It's something really good And I need to show That I want to let it grow And I want you to know CHORUS Lover you don’t have to cry And t...

There are changes that have lead us to this place Some formed from our wonder and some from our disgrace But that doesn't help the way we feel We're standing in the centre of the broken wheel CHORUS But I'll change my ways I'll do anything you say And...

From ship to shining shore Out of and age when time was young Across the silver ocean's floor Their endless battle has begun CHORUS And they burn upon the open hand blinding all who see They feast upon the desert land marching on They burn upon the ope...

Something happened here in this cold deserted place Where mighty walls have vanished leaving not a trace Something's not quite right where ravens cast a guilty eye And hidden reason still continues to deny CHORUS But Mary I can feel your pain I can hear your...

Mary is on her own again She's been crying now and no one seems to listen Oh and she was hoping I might come around To see why she's been missing There were no answers she had to run and hide As she crawled around the shadows I could still see her And o...

We have been fooled we have been deceived Our ancient values have been trampled out We have been moved on and disbelieved Looked at in horror if we dare to shout CHORUS Give us the strength to hold on To what we were forced to let go Give us the streng...

Speak your mind she said, but there are words best left alone Try to be kind she said, for there's no grace in doing wrong And when you're standing on your highest hill and you shout but no-one hears CHORUS You can fall but you must not lie down You...

From up here she said there's no compromise I've seen them laughing and they're in up to their eyes And all their clever words are whistling in the wind Whistling in the wind From up here she said you get the widest view Someone's watching no matter what...

Great halls wide with the ages and filled with the treasures of time High walls more than the strongest of hearts should believe they could climb CHORUS We all stand here broken and torn we long to get back to what’s real Back to the open fields Back to...

I'm walking out easy I'm walking out slow I'm taking this old road to a place that I know And I don't feel the wind and I don't see the snow Over my mountain And it's cold, getting colder, but I'm feeling so warm I'm flying so high I just can't see the s...

There's a heat in the land beneath our feet There's no more place to wander There's a pain in the faces that we meet Of the child we are no longer CHORUS It's in the way that they run The way that they force us to fall It's in the way that they run Po...

When first he rounded Pabay Mor and met the mountain waves alone There was fear til there was fear no more Wild Atlantic son He learned her gentle he learned her strong til he could feel her every heaving breath And he knew that he could do no wrong Wild Atl...

They worked through wind and rain To keep the roof above our heads Humbled time and time again What could they do? They crawled across your floors To keep and clean your houses Broken wounds and open sores What could they do? A little respect would hav...

The waves crash in and the tide tide pulls out It's an angry sea but there is no doubt That the lighthouse will keep shining out To warn the lonely sailor And the lightning strikes and the wind cuts cold Through the sailor's bones to the sailor's soul Ti...

Old layers of time have buried the ways that the others have grown And though sturdy and strong his eyes open wide with each new unknown And oh itis for the earth that he screams in the night He's a servant of the seasons and the morning's early light But...

All eyes are empty they hide the heavy heart And who'll fix the broken dream before it falls apart All things equal to whom it may concert The child will loose the place and time will never learn CHORUS Hide away, don't hide away, its just the price we h...

Oh restless fool can't you wait a minute longer? Oh restless fool can't you wait until you're stronger? For there's things that you don't know About harvesting the field There's things that you don't know And without a little time they will never be revea...

Take the young ones to the desert teach them how the arrow flies How to smell the beast upon the wind and run with mother nature's loving lies Show them how to balance what is wrong and what is right And make their own directions through the longest darkest...

Another lonely, lonely night You didn't expect him but you thought he might But you won't lose any sleeping 'Cause you know everythings all right CHORUS And he'll come rolling home, rolling home He'll come rolling home to you And he'll come rolling hom...

Take all your sad dreams you can throw them all away You see the sky's no longer grey You didn't tell me and you only had to say I only hope now you will stay with me I'm sorry if I didn't really try to understand you I wasn't thinking I was drinking a l...

Now that the storm has broken Now as the winds blow cold There's nothing here but trouble and fear To make a man grow old Now as our reasons are fading Now as the walls tumble down With nothing to hide but hunger and pride Won't make a man look round...

I still remember when I first watched him work the blade It was down in the Buckney den my questions tumbled and he said Oh this is not a thing to learn inside a day Stand closely by me and I'll try to show the way You've got to hold it right feel the dis...

From the island of the mountains to the hills across Argyll With a heart that is so broken with every weary mile And he'll never hear the whisper of his Hebridean wind Or the thunder of the ocean as the Minch comes tumbling in CHORUS He's holding out He...

Let me find out where we've landed Somehow this doesn't seem so right We could be lost we could be stranded In the darkness of the night And I don't see the broad horizon Don't feel the warmth of the sun Which makes it all the more surprising When you t...

Shame shame on you ruthless self made man Oh you've loaded your ambition on the children of this land And shame shame on you're great eternal plan It's your own diseased direction, you'll get there any way you can CHORUS Oh but we can see you now You ca...

Here comes the morning cruel and clear There is no reasonable chance that it might disappear And here comes the evening, it's still the same We are just passengers upon this godless, ghostly train CHORUS But she loves me when I try She thinks about me w...

He walks he does not run He has no overwhelming need to fly His heart remains unbroken No need to search the sky But me I've never found that place I wander recklessly ...and CHORUS I know that she will find me I know that she will find me Even if I...

When I see you cry well you know that I just feel such desperation And it seems that I'll never understand this crazy situation And it seems that lovers must be sad just to make some complication CHORUS And you can't hold on to the silver and gold 'Cause...

Your burning skies are never ending across your red brush plains Out where the dingo still is king and eternity remains There between the old and ancient desert oasis bright Your gentle children who have gone are close to me tonight CHORUS In your singin...

Down the Buckney den the burn crashes down from the autumn spate The gentle hazels rustle as they bend and sway as they laden wait My fathers they have walked this road and now I know And yes didn't they know There is no great and heavy load and now I know...

He says I hear the music almost everywhere I go If I should ever lose it I'd have nothing left to show I know I'm not the one to understand life wreckless ways I'm just a little child who believes in everything he says CHORUS Some hearts will fill with w...

I still remember late Saint Vincent nights When we were young and we were foolish Let's play another tune and dare to find ourselves For really who are we CHORUS But now that melody has danced away I hear it sing across the ocean On his way back home...

So much time has gone since we worked out in these open fields With the hope of generations pulled around us and a strength revealed And so much has been done since we ran around the Snaigow wood Never knowing where our gentle lights might lead us, or if in...

CHORUS It's been stolen from me Taken never to return Rendered blind I cannot see Back along the shining way we've come No more the singing tears will fall Fall to wash the spirits clean Almost empty almost all Blind refused to see what might have bee...

I took a place in a farm in Strathmore To bring the harvest home and watch the nature roar And we'd rise at dawn in the sun's clear light In the sun's clear light And we'd start our day with a sleepy head Sat on the big wood bench in the tractor shed An...

I'm talking with my father He's talking with his son And I don't need to look any further For the one I have become He says listen to that curlew That's a sound I love to hear It's a strange reflection that we look through Oh that finally finds us here...

I was there on the cold Assynt hills I heard the hunger cry and the tyrants laughing I heard the young men say goodbye to the place where their young dreams were grown CHORUS There's a land somewhere where we can build our freedom There's a land some...

She plays a little tune it sings around the room It dances through the air and sparkles everywhere A simple melody a gentle harmony A door will open wide and you will run outside And you will fly away For a moment freed from one more endless day You ho...

He says it goes with the land and we can do nothing more And no-one can see what is wrong and is right It goes with the land and it's broken and sore And it bleeds from inside and is tired of this long endless flight CHORUS But they never will learn It...

Oh the sky was shaking as we turned her round Through the crashing spray of the Cuillin Sound And all hands were silent on that final day As we sailed the Mhairi Bhan home And that tired old lady she had served us well Through the straits and calms to th...

Across the ocean the wind blows silent what a tale of sorrow it brings And listen how the force that's so vane and violent rings Stand the shore, watch the broad horizon, never knowing what it might hide Washing up a great storm of tears on every tide And...

How long did you think it would take until it started to weaken? How long could you fumble and fake and not see it was beaten? You crave for the other man's shoes You break and you bite, you black and you bruise but CHORUS This line has broken And what...

It's a thin line that leads us and keeps a man from shame And dark clouds quickly gather along the way he came There's fear out on the mountain and death out on the plain There's heartbreak and heart-ache in the shadow of the flame CHORUS This love will...

You found chances in this place To build upon your affluence and build upon your grace You'd have come sooner if you'd known Now you're brushing up the velvet and the beads upon your throne CHORUS You come thundering in You come thundering in You want...

Lift up your glass to tomorrow Say your own sad farewells for today But how can parting be such a sweet sorrow When you can't find the right words to say Oh I can see I will have to be moving I've been standing out here for too long But I know all the fr...

Oh they tell their tales to the wide young eyes Of the fertile plains the cloudless skies But honesty must take the strain Where lies move fast like the roaring train CHORUS And the shy ones bleed while the sure ones fail On the trail of the survivor A...

Seaward they came On the wings of the wind, on the edge of the flame To these ancient shores For the cancer they bring destroys as it roars CHORUS And it's tumbling down You had your chance but it's tumbling down White as the snow And leaving no ston...

CHORUS In darkness we do what we can In daylight we're oblivion Our hearts so raw and clear Are turning away, turning away from here On the water we have walked like the fearless child What was fastened we've unlocked revealing wondrous wild And in sea...

CHORUS Until we meet again I wish you well I hope your light shines easily And until we meet again it doesn't matter how we've done On Atholl side I'll see you further on You may struggle you may toil to support the walls around you Or lonely burn the m...

Our voice made silent, our hands made still But deep and violent wait the ones whowait to kill The desert's burning, their reasons pale For there's no returning with some golden holy grail CHORUS What have they done? What have they done? The blood will...

We're held in the motion as it moves us along never knowing quite where it might lead And from mountain to ocean we try to be strong oh we bend to the ultimate need Of the hopes and fears of the yet to be born determined we nourish their seed CHORUS And if...

He stands the open door he's greeted by the dawn An eagle look upon his face now the mist of sleep has gone He walks across the field his senses search the air Another new day revealed life's reflections everywhere CHORUS At a glance a weathereye Search...

For too long we've heard them laughing at our dreams Ridicule our reasons, and blind ignoring what it means For too long we have believed the walls they made But now we see a shining light and we are not afraid CHORUS When the people speak it's not with...

Over the mountains and out across the sea On weathered wings he soars into the edges of the breeze Over the water and out across the fields With eagle eye he watches he's seeing what our hearts can never see and he speaks to me CHORUS From up here I've see...