Lyrics

HUSH HUSH

Chorus:

Hush hush, time tae be sleepin'

Hush hush, dreams come a-creepin'

Dreams o' peace and o' freedom

So smile in your sleep, bonny baby.

 

Once our valleys were ringin'

Wi' sounds o' oor children singin'

But now sheep bleat in the evenin'

And shielings lie empty an' broken.

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We stood wi' heads bowed in prayer

While factors burned our cottages fair

Flames licked the clear mountain air

And many were dead by the mornin'

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Where was our fierce Highland mettle

Oor men once fearless in battle

Now stand, cowed, huddled like cattle

And wait tae be shipped o'er the ocean

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No use in cryin' or pleadin'

Gone, gone, a' hope o' stayin'

So hush hush, the anchor's a-weighin'

Don't cry in your sleep, bonny baby

               Chorus

 

COME BY THE HILLS

Come by the hills tae the land where fancy is free

Stand where the peaks meet the sky and the lochs meet the sea

Where the river runs clear and bracken is gold in the sun

And the cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done.

 

Come by the hills tae the land where life is a song

Sing where the birds fill the air wi' their joy all day long

Where the trees sway in time and even the wind is in tune

And the cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done.

 

Come by the hills tae the land where legend remains

Where stories of old fill the heart and may yet come again

For the past it is lost and our future is yet tae be won

And the cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done.

 

Come by the hills tae the land where fancy is free

Stand where the peaks meet the sky and the lochs meet the sea

Where the river runs clear and bracken is gold in the sun

And the cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done.

And the cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done.

KISHORN COMMANDOS

Chorus:

We're the Kishorn Commandos way up in Wester Ross

We never had a gaffer, never had a boss

We built the biggest oil rig ye've ever come across

Remember we're the Kishorn Commandos.

                  Repeat chorus

Early every morning we get wakened by a shout

Get up ye idle buggers, won't ye get yer finger out

What do we get for breakfast? Seven pints o' stout

Remember we're the Kishorn Commandos

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We're the toughest bunch o' navvies that you have ever met

We'll work or fight wi' anyone and you can take a bet

There may be some men tougher, we haven't found them yet

Remember we're the Kishorn Commandos

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We never joined the Navy, we never joined the RAF

Never joined the Army, we're no sae bloody daft

We'd rather go to Kishorn, get paid for skivin' off

Remember we're the Kishorn Commandos.

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We're the Kishorn Commandos, way up in Wester Ross

We never had a gaffer, never had a boss

We built the biggest oil rig ye've ever come across

Remember we're the Kishorn Commandos. 

 

CALEDONIA

by Dougie Maclean

I don'  know if you can see

The changes that have come over me

These last few days I've bin afraid, might drift away.

I've bin tellin' old stories, singin' songs

Made me think about where I come from

That's the reason why I seem so far away today.

Chorus 

An' let me tell you that I love you

That I think about you a' the time

Caledonia you're callin' me, now I'm goin' home

If I should become a stranger

Know that it would make me more than sad

Caledonia's bin everythin I've ever had.

 

Now I have moved, I've kept on movin'

Proved the points that I needed provin'

Lost the friends that I needed losin'

Found others on the way

I have kissed the ladies, left them cryin'

Stolen dreams, there's no denyin'

I've travelled hard, sometimes wi' conscience flyin'

Somewhere wi' the wind

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Now I'm sittin here before a fire

Empty room, the forest choir

The fames have cooled, can't get any higher

They've withered now they're gone

But I'm steady thinkin' my way is clear

'Nd I know what I will do tomorrow

When the hands are shaken and the kisses flow

I will disappear

                   Chorus

 

NAVER BAY

Chorus:

Where the Naver meets the sea

That's the place I long to be

Where the crofters tend their sheep and make their hay

Workin' on a threshin' mill

Back in bonny Bettyhill

In a place that's known as Bonny Naver Bay.

 

You can go to Kirtomy

That's a place beside the sea

Or to Hope or Tongue a few miles further west

Ah but if I had my way

I would stay by Naver Bay

It is the place I dearly love the best.

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There's the waters o' Kylesku

And the bonny cave at Smoo

Ben Klibreck and Ben Loyal they are grand

Oh but how I long to be

In my home beside the sea

In a place that's known as Bonny Naver Bay.

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Oh if ever you come North

Just come to my place of birth

Forget about Loch Lomond and Loch Tay

Build your castles in the sand

In my home in Sutherland

In a place that's known as Bonny Naver Bay

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Repeat last line of chorus.