The Scottish Settler's Lament letra

Awa' wi' Canada's muddy creeks and Canada's fields of pine
This land of wheat's a goodly land, but oh, it is not mine
The heathy hill, the grassy dale, the daisy-spangled lea
The purling burn and craggy linn old Scotland's glens give me

Oh I would like tae hear again the lark on Tinnie's hill
Or see the wee bit gowanie that blooms beside the rill
Like banished Swiss who views afar his Alps with longing e'e
I gaze upon the morning star that shines on my country

No more I'll win by Eskdale Glen or Pentland's craggy combe
Those days can ne'er come back again of thirty years that's gone
But fancy oft ae midnight hour will steal across the sea
And yester eve in a pleasant dream I saw the old country

Each well-known scene that met my view brought childhood's joys to mind
The blackbird sang on Tushie Linn the song he sang Lang Syne
But like a dream time flies away again the morning came
And I awoke in Canada three thousand miles frae hame

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