Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dark Lochnagar, artist - The Corries. Album song The Compact Collection, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 10.11.2009
Record label: GB
Song language: English
Dark Lochnagar |
Away ye grey landscapes, ye gardens o' roses |
In you let the minions of luxury rove |
And restore me the rocks where the snowflake reposes |
If still they are sacred to freedom and love |
Brave Caledonia, dear are thy mountains |
Round their white summits though elements war |
Though cataracts roar 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains |
I sigh for the valley o' dark Lochnagar |
Ah! |
there my young footsteps in infancy wandered |
My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid |
On chieftains departed my memory lingered |
As daily I strayed through the pine-covered glade |
I sought not my home till the day’s dying glory |
Gave place to the rays o' the bright polar star |
My fancy was cheered by the bold martial story |
As told by the sons o' dark Lochnagar |
Years have rolled on, Lochnagar, since I left you |
Years must roll on ere I see you again |
Though Nature of verdure and flowers bereft you |
Yet still art thou dearer than Albion’s plain |
England! |
thy beauties are tame and domestic |
To one who has roved on the mountains afar |
Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic |
The steep frowning glories o' wild Lochnagar |
Brave Caledonia, dear are thy mountains |
I sigh for the valley o' dark Lochnagar |
Ill-starred now the brave, did no vision foreboding |
Tell you that fate had forsaken our cause? |
Yet were you destined to die at Culloden |
Though victory crowned not your fall with applause |
Yet were you happy in death’s earthly slumber |
To sleep wi' your clan in the caves of Braemar |
The pibroch resounds to the piper’s loud number |
Your deeds to the echoes of wild Lochnagar |
Brave Caledonia, dear are thy mountains |
I sigh for the valley o' dark Lochnagar |