《The Clearances》歌词

[00:00:00] The Clearances - Plainsong

[00:00:00] Written by：Dawson

[00:00:09] As I was out walking down by the seashore

[00:00:13] I met a young woman was crying

[00:00:17] I asked her the reason for all her lament

[00:00:22] And why she was wringing and sighing

[00:00:26] Oh Sir it's a wonder we meet here today

[00:00:30] And a wonder my heart is still beating

[00:00:35] For not two hours hence

[00:00:36] I have buried my child

[00:00:39] And my husband in despair defeated

[00:00:43] May the winds of the ocean blow over my bones

[00:00:48] And hell be my home when I'm dying

[00:00:52] If ever a man shall be able to say

[00:00:57] That a daughter of scotland was lying

[00:01:01] For the story unfoldding will burn at your ears

[00:01:05] And melt out the heart of a mountain

[00:01:10] And the glens full of sheep

[00:01:12] Will be washed by my tears

[00:01:14] Where once there were people for counting

[00:01:18] They took us at daybreak before we arose

[00:01:23] They took us without any warning

[00:01:27] And the house we had lived in for all those years

[00:01:32] Was nothing but stones by the morning

[00:01:36] They tore at our roofs with their breakers of steel

[00:01:40] And spat on our trust with their curses

[00:01:45] And we starved

[00:01:46] And we froze

[00:01:47] In the wind and the rain

[00:01:49] While they fingered the straps of their purses

[00:02:11] Now ships there are waiting in stranraer town

[00:02:16] The east winds are cruelly blowing

[00:02:20] And It's new world's are waiting and old world's are gone

[00:02:24] With the chill of the breakers a rolling

[00:02:29] And hope will be sailing to scotia's pale shores

[00:02:33] Like flocks of old geese they are flying

[00:02:38] But I had a dream as I lay in my bed

[00:02:42] And it's here I'll be doing my dying

[00:02:46] And princes and kings will be drinking tonight

[00:02:51] A toast to the power and the glory

[00:02:55] And may god bless their dreams as they lay in their beds

[00:03:00] As I make an end to my story

[00:03:04] And all that I'm asking is earth for a grave

[00:03:08] A stone and a bunch of white heather

[00:03:13] For my joy and my beauty no more will I live

[00:03:17] But death be my comfort forever

[00:03:20] Death be my comfort forever

[00:03:22] Death be my comfort forever

[00:03:24] Death be my comfort forever

[00:03:26] Death be my comfort forever