Rising up above foam-crest waves
the Highlands call me home
Yes, call to me in Gaelic tongues
to leave my water’s roam
Riding across waves of ocean's far
to reach this wondrous shore
I'll soon be there on ancestral land
known by lives before
Then nearer still, the waves reduce
I find a river wide
I sail within its Lowland shores
upon the Firth of Clyde
As stars reduce by the morning's rise
more wonders take their shape
I see cliffs all lined with moss and grass
that form this wondrous scape
This beautiful land with its rugged build
bids to me "come explore
and climb straight up to a Highland lake
then to the Upland moor"
So along the Clyde I sail my craft
and enter Scotland's soul
Like a Tartan's weave this water binds
a nation as a whole
To the North you see the mountains raise
so rugged and wild and free
To the South are hills with moors that roll
calling all "look, come see"
But it was the Clyde than won my heart
as I sailed to this place
For it opened wide, like arms stretched out
granting a sense of grace
Aug 21, 2010
Aug 21, 2010 at 10:16 AM UTC
Rising up above foam-crest waves
the Highlands call me home
Yes, call to me in Gaelic tongues
to leave my water’s roam
Riding across waves of ocean's far
to reach this wondrous shore
I'll soon be there on ancestral land
known by lives before
Then nearer still, the waves reduce
I find a river wide
I sail within its Lowland shores
upon the Firth of Clyde
As stars reduce by the morning's rise
more wonders take their shape
I see cliffs all lined with moss and grass
that form this wondrous scape
This beautiful land with its rugged build
bids to me "come explore
and climb straight up to a Highland lake
then to the Upland moor"
So along the Clyde I sail my craft
and enter Scotland's soul
Like a Tartan's weave this water binds
a nation as a whole
To the North you see the mountains raise
so rugged and wild and free
To the South are hills with moors that roll
calling all "look, come see"
But it was the Clyde than won my heart
as I sailed to this place
For it opened wide, like arms stretched out
granting a sense of grace
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