The Corries – Lock The Door Lariston (Guitar Live)

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[Verse 1]
D                       G       D
Lock the door Lariston, Lion O' Liddesdale

                        Bm  
Lock the door Lariston, Lowther comes on

    D                          G          D
The Armstrongs are flyin', the widows are cryin'

                          Bm  
Castletown is burnin' and Oliver is gone

D
Lock the door Lariston, high on the weather gleams

                              Bm  
See how the Saxon plumes they bob on the sky

D
Yeoman and carbinere, billman and halberdiere

              A          Bm   F#m   Bm  
Fierce is the battle and far is the cry
[Verse 2]
D                    G              D
Bewcastle brandishes high his broad scimitar

                     Bm  
Ridley is riding his fleet-footed grey

D                        G          D
Hidley and Howard there, Wandel and Windermere

                        Bm  
Lock the door Lariston, hold them at bay

D
Why dae ye smile noble Elliot o' Lariston

                        Bm  
Why does the joy candle gleem in yer eye?

D
Ye bold border ranger, beware o' yer danger

              A           Bm         F#m   Bm  
Your foes are relentless, determ  ed and nigh
[Verse 3]
      D                      G           D
I hae Mangerton and Ogilvie, Raeburn and Netherby

                       Bm  
Old Simm O'Whitram and a' his array

D                        G            D
Come all Northumberland, Teesdale and Cumberland

                          Bm  
Here at the Breakin Tower end the affray

D
See how they wane the proud file o' the Windermere

                       Bm  
Howard, ah woe tae yer hopes o' the day

D
Hear the rude welkin' rend, while the Scots shouts ascend

          A          Bm     F#m   Bm  
Elliot o' Lasriston! Elliot for aye!