Leaving Strathconon – Oran Ailein

 

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Egentlig hører sangen Oran Ailein – Allans sang med – men vi har ikke lige fået lært den helt på gælisk endnu Vi arbejder på sagen

 

 

 

Teine oidhche geamhradh                           Ved vinterafternes kaminild
‘Nar sheasamh air an lar                             Stod vi rundt på gulvet
Sheinn sinn oran Ailein                               Vi sang Alans sang
Seist is rann                                               Vers og omkvæd
‘S an treana ruith cho taibhseil                    Og toget kørte spøgelsesagtigt
Mar cuimhne tron ghleann                          Som et minde gennem dalen
‘S iomadh loit nach tig slan                         Der er mange sår som aldrig heler

 

 

 

 Leaving Strathconon

 

G                             C               G
We’re the emigrant ones, not the last in the line
                            C      G
You’re your father’s son. and I am mine
                            C              G 
And all of our northwords turn distant and small
                       C           D         G 
In the end they mean nothing, no. nothing at all

G                                       C                G
Right here’s the river’s source, and it flows out to the world
                               C               G
And the heart of Caledonia is drowning in its flood
                                          C                   G
Was there hunger in our striving, did the light shine in our dark
                     C               D                  G
Was everything we ever needed always right here from the start
G        C     G
Please believe me
G         C      G
Something in me died
C                G
Leaving Strathconon
         D         G
And your mountains behind

G                                          C               G
We stood on a hundred gangways. that’s the way it’s always been
                                   C              G
I walked out beyond Calvary with all my kith and kin
                             C            G
In the war of the worlds we conquer and roam
                        C             D           G   
Lie the wounds that stay bleeding and raw in the soul
G        C     G
Please believe me
G         C      G
Something in me died
C                G
Leaving Strathconon
         D         G
And your mountains behind

G                            C           G
After the raging flame, the embers burn slow
                                              C               G
We’re leaving. leaving. leaving, till there’s nowhere left to go
                                           C              G
The seas. the slums the battlefields. the shipyards. the tides
                             C                    D               G
The straths, the glens. the drove roads all the prairies and the mines

G                                    C            G
It’s a still. autumn morning, and it covers Loch Meig
                                         C               G
And all the trees across the valley in a blaze of dying green
                                       C             G
I’ve seen too many tail-lights, didn’t need to say goodbye
                C           C                    D               G
We’re just souls across a shrinking world in a distant starlit night
G        C     G
Please believe me
G         C      G
Something in me died
C                G
Leaving Strathconon
         D         G
And your mountains behind
G          C    G
Please believe me
G         C      G
Something in me died
G        C       G
Leaving Strathconon
          D            G
And your father’s home behind