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The highlands and the lowlands are
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The roots my father knows
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The holidays at oban and 
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The towns around Montrose
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But even as he sleeps
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They're loading bombs into the hills
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And the waters in the lochs can run deep
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But never still

I've thought of having children

But I've gone and changed my mind

It's hard enough to watch the news

Let alone, explain it to a child

To cast your eye 'cross nature

Over fields of rape and corn

And tell him without flinching

Not to fear where he's been born

Then someone sat me down last night

And I heard Caruso sing

He's almost as good as Presley

And if I, only do one thing

I'll sing songs to my father

I'll sing songs to my child

It's time to hold your loved ones

while the chains are loosed

And the world runs wild
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   And even as we speak
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They're loading bombs into a white town
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How can we afford to ever sleep
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So sound again