Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Family of the Mountains, artist - Dougie MacLean. Album song Whitewash, in the genre Date of issue: 28.02.1990
Record label: Dunkeld
Song language: English
Family of the Mountains |
| Change crashes down |
| Around my family of the mountains |
| Newer ways have come |
| People talk about things they could never know |
| And as the old ones look around |
| At what’s been left for them they see |
| The land they gently touched |
| It’s tethered now to the rich man’s misery |
| Let them be, you see they’re running scared |
| Let them be, now you’ve taken what they shared |
| Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired |
| Prosperity has come |
| But not for my family of the mountains |
| The quiet and gentle ones |
| They had no ambition fired by greed |
| And as the old ones look around |
| At what’s been left for them they see |
| The land they gently touched |
| It’s tethered now to the rich man’s misery |
| Let them be, you see they’re running scared |
| Let them be, now you’ve taken what they shared |
| Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired |
| Time passes on |
| And so does my family of the mountains |
| The older ways have gone |
| People search for a past that was always there |
| And as the old ones look around |
| At what’s been left for them they see |
| The land they gently touched |
| It’s tethered now to the rich man’s misery |
| Let them be, you see they’re running scared |
| Let them be, now you’ve taken what they shared |
| Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired |