Gordon Bok – Coshieville (Guitar)

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The West winds blow to Coshieville

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And with the winds came we

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And where the river hugs the wood

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And Blackthorns bloom in May, there stood

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A single Rowan Tree

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So young and tender, so were you

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I loved you both, as there you grew

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The day I took the road that leads

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By Rannoch to the sea

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We carved our names in Coshieville

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The Rowan leaves were still

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But the darkening West was in your eyes

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Despite your kisses and my lies

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My thoughts had crossed the hill

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I broke your heart as the minutes passed

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I shrugged and said that nothing lasts

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But many the backward glance I cast

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As I went North to the drill

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The big wheels rumble up and down

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The lorries know the way

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I waved my hand, I hitched a ride

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We crossed the bridge at Rannoch-side

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Where the diesel motors play

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Then I set myself to a cliff of stone

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My ears to the boring-hammer's drone

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But the ache inside, I rued alone

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For you were far away

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But the money moved from Erichts Loch

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And the Great Glen beckoned on

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At Norriston the hills grew pale

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We fought and drank through old Kintail

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Till our money soon was gone

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And I curse Loch Aweside's autumn rain

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The winter whiskey in Dunblane

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Till the west winds rose in the spring again

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And my heart leapt at its song

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Then I came at last to Coshieville

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With a dozen hills aflame

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You had another hand to hold

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Beneath the names we carved of old

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There was another name

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You looked me through, you made no sign

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I drank that cup of bitter wine

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For well we knew the fault was mine

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And I went the road I came