The Clearances-Plainsong

[ti:The Clearances] [ar:Plainsong] [al:Voices Electric] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.23]The Clearances - Plainsong [00:00.96]Written by：Dawson [00:01.64] [00:09.03]As I was out walking down by the seashore [00:13.13]I met a young woman was crying [00:17.13] [00:17.76]I asked her the reason for all her lament [00:22.21]And why she was wringing and sighing [00:25.78] [00:26.30]Oh Sir it's a wonder we meet here today [00:30.60]And a wonder my heart is still beating [00:35.22]For not two hours hence [00:36.98]I have buried my child [00:39.48]And my husband in despair defeated [00:43.65]May the winds of the ocean blow over my bones [00:48.48]And hell be my home when I'm dying [00:52.21] [00:52.93]If ever a man shall be able to say [00:57.10]That a daughter of scotland was lying [01:00.83] [01:01.41]For the story unfoldding will burn at your ears [01:05.83]And melt out the heart of a mountain [01:10.11]And the glens full of sheep [01:12.29]Will be washed by my tears [01:14.77]Where once there were people for counting [01:18.88]They took us at daybreak before we arose [01:23.54]They took us without any warning [01:27.54]And the house we had lived in for all those years [01:32.35]Was nothing but stones by the morning [01:35.80] [01:36.54]They tore at our roofs with their breakers of steel [01:40.90]And spat on our trust with their curses [01:45.23]And we starved [01:46.41]And we froze [01:47.49]In the wind and the rain [01:49.70]While they fingered the straps of their purses [01:53.83] [02:11.61]Now ships there are waiting in stranraer town [02:16.27]The east winds are cruelly blowing [02:19.58] [02:20.26]And It's new world's are waiting and old world's are gone [02:24.80]With the chill of the breakers a rolling [02:28.37] [02:29.03]And hope will be sailing to scotia's pale shores [02:33.78]Like flocks of old geese they are flying [02:37.25] [02:38.02]But I had a dream as I lay in my bed [02:42.30]And it's here I'll be doing my dying [02:46.95]And princes and kings will be drinking tonight [02:51.32]A toast to the power and the glory [02:54.88] [02:55.41]And may god bless their dreams as they lay in their beds [03:00.06]As I make an end to my story [03:03.65] [03:04.31]And all that I'm asking is earth for a grave [03:08.81]A stone and a bunch of white heather [03:12.11] [03:13.00]For my joy and my beauty no more will I live [03:17.43]But death be my comfort forever [03:20.16]Death be my comfort forever [03:22.29]Death be my comfort forever [03:24.61]Death be my comfort forever [03:26.66]Death be my comfort forever