Alex Beaton - These Are My Mountains lyrics

rate me

For fame and for fortune I 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

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 tho' far I did roam

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

(Last) and I have come home

The burn by the road sings at my going by

The whaup averhead 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

Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in

And how they will greet me my ain kith and kin

The night round the ingle old sangs will be sung

At last I'll be hearing my ain mother tongue.