Runrig – Stamping Ground (Guitar)

An excellent song by Runrig that's relatively easy to play even for beginners as there are only 4 chords used (C, G, D, Em) (Translation: Gaidhlig: 'Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o' English: 'There's a new grass growing on the top of the soil' (Just singing in the verses. After the first two choruses, instruments stop playing and there is only singing, apart from the 3 drum beats used on 'Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o' line. Verse 1:

G                             C                 G
April comes to the new grass on the hills of gold

G                C               G                 C
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

        G                   C
Where winter falls in the long cold north

      G                   C        G
Black waters wait in the Ice and snow

G                C               G               C
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o

      G                   C
Black waters wait in the Ice and sun

              C                               G
Through the glens where your great rivers run

Chorus:

            C        G      D     C
Back on the stamping ground

             Em    C    G    D
to where it all began

            C        G      D     C
Back on the stamping ground

    G
We come again

Same notes for verses 2 & 3: (G, C) Same chords for chorus: (C, G, D, C, Em, C, G, D, C, G, D, C, G) Verse 2: So we tend and we nurtur all the seeds we've sown Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow till the fields turn ripe and a harvest stored Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow We will wait here till the winter's end Chorus: Back on the stamping ground to where it all began Back on the stamping ground We come again Verse 3: So it's blood on blood, our bond, our word Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o For the strength and weakness of our days is to take you there on a journey shared Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o So take this ring, make it sparkle and glow it's much greater than we may ever know Chorus: Back on the stamping ground to where it all began Back on the stamping ground We come again