At the End of a Pointed Gun letra

I've laboured through two world wars
An old war that still fights on
I'll dare any man says I've not worked
This land that I stand upon
A homeland both free and strong
To harbour my only son
I hoped he'd never see as I
The end of a pointed gun

Chorus:
My nation and my son, my nation and my son
One found its birth, one found his death
At the end of a pointed gun

Oh praised be Olympiad
Was echoed the whole world round
Nation to nation unified
On one chosen stretch of ground
Oh proud were the boys as mine
To play for their own country
I wish to God he'd never gone
But stayed with his family

Chorus

The games scarcely had begun
When out of each winner's joy
Bloodshed rose unexpectedly
Eleven dead and one my boy
How does a father mourn
His murdered hopes and dreams?
How on this earth can he escape
The agonies he has seen?

Chorus

I've laboured through two world wars
An old war that still fights on
I'll dare any man says I've not worked
This land my boy rests upon

Chorus

The Tannahill Weavers - Letras

• A Night Visitor's Song
• Aikendrum
• Are Ye Sleeping Maggie?
• At the End of a Pointed Gun
• Auld Lang Syne
• Birnie Bouzle
• Bonnie Was Yon Rosie Briar
• Braw Burn the Bridges
• Bustles and Bonnets
• Cam Ye by Atholl
• Cam' Ye O'er Frae France
• Captain Ward
• Come Under My Plaidie
• Craigieburn Wood
• Dark Eyed Molly
• Drink A Round
• Dumbarton's Drums
• Fareweel You Silver Darlins
• Farewell to Fiunary
• Fisher Row
• Grat For Gruel
• Hame
• Harris and the Mare
• Helen Of Kirkconnell
• Hieland Harry
• I Once Loved a Lass
• It Was All For Our Rightful King
• Jamie Raeburn's Farewell
• Jock Stewart
• Johnnie Cope
• Joy of My Heart
• Lady Dysie
• Lady Mary Anne
• Land of Light
• Lassie wi the Lintwhite Locks
• Last May a Braw Wooer
• Logie o Buchan
• Maggie Lauder
• Malley Leigh
• Marie Christine
• Mary Morrison
• My Love's in Germanie
• Ower the Hills and Faur Awa
• Ower the Moor Amang the Heather
• Rich Man's Silver
• Robin Tamson's Smiddy
• The American Stranger
• The Athol Gathering
• The Bergen
• The Braes o' Balquhidder
• The Braes o' Gleniffer
• The Brewer Laddie
• The Cuillins of Rhum
• The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn
• The Final Trawl
• The Gallant Shearers
• The Great Ships
• The Gypsy Laddie
• The Laird O Cockpen
• The Overgate
• The Plooboy Laddies
• The Queen Amang the Heather
• The Rigs o Rye
• The Rose Amang the Thorn
• The Rovin Heilandman
• The Scottish Settler's Lament
• The Shearin's No For You
• The Standard on the Braes o' Mar
• The Terror Time
• The Three Healths
• The Trooper and the Maid
• The Wars o Germany
• The Yellow Haired Laddie
• Tranent Muir
• Up in the Mornin's no for Me
• Welcome Royal Cherlie
• Westlin Winds
• When the Kye Come Hame
• Wild Mountain Thyme