The Summer Walkers-Runrig

[ti:The Summer Walkers] [ar:Runrig] [al:The Stamping Ground] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Summer Walkers - Runrig [00:02.16]Written by：R. Macdonald/C. Macdonald [00:04.33]Sometimes when you journey [00:06.61]Through the pages of a book [00:08.98] [00:09.98]You're taken places beyond words [00:12.69]You let them speak the truth [00:15.46] [00:16.78]Today I've opened treasures [00:19.60]That my eyes could scarce believe [00:22.86] [00:24.34]They're the words of confirmation [00:26.48] [00:26.98]Everything that makes me sing [00:30.01] [00:31.36]Summer comes to Sutherland [00:33.46] [00:34.01]And you bend the hazel bow [00:36.36] [00:37.42]You harness up the ponies [00:39.83] [00:40.33]And you head out on the road [00:43.79] [00:44.76]By Kilbreck and Altnaharra [00:47.42] [00:48.50]You journey to your rest [00:51.76] [00:52.52]With the guiding might of Suliven [00:55.15] [00:55.70]For the campsites of the west [00:59.28] [00:59.80]And it's up by the shin [01:03.19] [01:04.17]And up by the 'Naver [01:07.72]And the long winding shores [01:10.94]Of Loch Maree [01:14.37]By Ben hope and Ben loyal [01:17.75] [01:18.33]By stack and by Arkle [01:21.01] [01:21.61]The road reaches long [01:24.26] [01:24.77]Now the summer is here [01:28.19] [01:30.42]Now your words are not of sentiment [01:33.29]Shallow or untrue [01:34.75] [01:36.13]But wells of living water [01:38.43]And from their clear deep sides we drew [01:41.91] [01:42.95]The songs the tin the horses [01:45.63]This country's great and ancient wilds [01:48.95] [01:50.29]Your faith in god and man and nature [01:53.38] [01:54.21]And the keenness of your guile [01:57.32] [01:58.65]And it's up by the shin [02:02.01] [02:02.90]And up by the 'Naver [02:06.37]And the long winding shores [02:09.39] [02:10.08]Of Loch Maree [02:13.06]By Ben hope and Ben loyal [02:16.98]By stack and by Arkle [02:19.91] [02:20.43]The road reaches long [02:22.67] [02:23.38]Now the summer is here [02:27.54] [02:28.35]So have you stood out on Coldbackie [02:32.03] [02:32.56]At the time the sun goes down [02:35.60] [02:36.20]Or up on the king of campsites [02:38.93] [02:39.64]In the hills about brae tongue [02:42.81] [02:43.51]That's when music filled your evenings [02:47.42]It's all so different now this world [02:51.11] [02:51.96]For you were the summer walkers [02:54.27] [02:55.52]And the fishers of the pearl [02:59.34] [03:00.27]So as we close another chapter [03:02.75]That we label archive gold [03:05.76] [03:06.71]Still the Conon flows each morning [03:09.19] [03:10.00]And the dew falls from the sloe [03:13.73] [03:14.84]But today you took me walking [03:17.03] [03:18.93]Through a land that we have lost [03:22.36] [03:23.44]While our children sit at websites [03:26.06] [03:27.79]With no access to the cost [03:31.93] [03:33.74]And it's up by the shin [03:37.15] [03:38.42]And up by the 'Naver [03:41.75]And the long winding shores [03:44.71] [03:45.44]Of Loch Maree [03:48.35]By Ben hope and Ben loyal [03:51.70] [03:52.42]By stack and by Arkle [03:55.94]The road reaches long [03:58.26] [03:58.80]Now the summer is here [04:02.32]And it's up by the shin [04:05.44] [04:06.72]And up by the 'Naver [04:09.69]And the long winding shores [04:12.39] [04:13.00]Of Loch Maree [04:16.04]By Ben hope and Ben loyal [04:19.06] [04:19.94]By stack and by Arkle [04:22.74] [04:23.60]The road reaches long [04:25.63] [04:26.22]Now the summer is here