Songs

[holly_evolving]

These Are My Mountains (Scottish Traditional)

For fame and for fortune I've wandered the earth
And now I've come back to the land of my birth
I've brought back my treasures but only to find
They're less than the pleasures I first left behind

Chorus:
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
The braes of my childhood will know me again
No land's ever claimed me though far I did roam
For these are my mountains and I'm coming home

The byrn by the road sings at my going by
The whaup overhead wings with welcoming cry
The loch where the scart flies at last I can see
It's here that my heart lies It's here I'll be free

Chorus

Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in
And how will they greet me my own kith and kin
The night round the ingle old songs will be sung
At last I'll be hearing my own mother tongue

Chorus
Repeat Chorus

For these are my mountains and I have come home.



Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
Let us drink and be merry all out of one glass
Let us drink and be merry all care to refrain
For we may or might never all be here again."