
Date of issue: 31.12.1992
Record label: Iona
Song language: English
Burning Horizons |
Leaving now for Nova Scotia |
My homeland’s kindred isle |
Always an arm so far apart |
We span the silver miles |
In search of work, I come to you |
As our fathers did before |
On white-sailed ships we packed our lives and left |
We left our native shore |
The ships they anchor side by side |
Our brave new world is here |
Spirits higher than they’ve been |
For many, many years |
In search of work, I come to you |
As our fathers did before |
Across the dark and briny seas to find |
Your nativ shore |
In the burning horizon |
Feeds a fire |
Smoky hadland, darkest isle |
Staring seaward, deepest ocean |
Over tide |
Oh, in the burning horizon |
Feeds a fire |
Smoky headland, darkest isle |
Staring seaward, deepest ocean |
Over tide |
Struggle’s hard for seven months |
Our travels take us far |
Desperate times we then endure |
Until America |
From there to Spain, then on again |
For another war to fight |
I’m dreaming of my own homeland far from |
Far from this weary light |
Coming home from Canada |
And I’m coming home from Spain |
I’ve been to America |
And I’m coming home again |
Spying Ross’s darkest isle |
The patchwork fields of green |
Along the view to where my heart |
Will always be |
In the burning horizon |
Feeds a fire |
Smoky headland, darkest isle |
Staring seaward, deepest ocean |
Ohhhhh |
In the burning horizon |
Feeds a fire |
Smoky headland, darkest isle |
Staring seaward, deepest ocean |
Over tide |
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