Runrig – Leaving Strathconon (Guitar)
Capo 4
Key
-
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
[Verse 1]
G D G We're the emigrant ones, not the last in the line G C G You're your father's son. and I am mine G C G And all of our northwords turn distant and small C G D G In the end they mean nothing, no. nothing at all G D G Right here's the river's source, and it flows out to the world G C G And the heart of Caledonia is drowning in its flood G C G Was there hunger in our striving, did the light shine in our dark C G D G Was everything we ever needed always right here from the start
[Chorus]
Em G Please believe me C G Something in me died C G Leaving Strathconon D F C G F C G And your mountains behind
[Verse 2]
G D G We stood on a hundred gangways. that's the way it's always been G C G I walked out beyond Calvary with all my kith and kin G C G In the war of the worlds we conquer and roam C G D G Lie the wounds that stay bleeding and raw in the soul
[Chorus]
Em G Please believe me C G Something in me died C G Leaving Strathconon D G And your mountains behind Em G Please believe me C G Something in me died C G Leaving Strathconon D G And your mountains behind
[Solo]
C G C G C G D G
C G C G C G D G
[Verse 3]
G D G After the raging flame, the embers burn slow G C G We're leaving. leaving. leaving, till there's nowhere left to go G C G The seas. the slums the battlefields. the shipyards. the tides C G D G The straths, the glens. the drove roads. all the prairies and the mines G D G It's a still. autumn morning, and it covers Loch Meig G C G And all the trees across the valley in a blaze of dying green G C G I've seen too many tail-lights, didn't need to say goodbye C G D G We're just souls across a shrinking world in a distant starlit night
[Chorus]
Em G Please believe me C G Something in me died C G Leaving Strathconon D G And your mountains behind Em G Please believe me C G Something in me died C G Leaving Strathconon D G And your father's home behind