• Song:

    Scarborough Settlers Lament

  • Artist:

    Stan Rogers

 Scarborough Settler's Lament      3/4     Stan Rogers
Standard Tuning / Travis Picking  1 + 2 + 3 +
Recorded by Stan Rogers in 1982 on For the Family.

  / C (x32010@1)     /          /       /             / Am (x02210@1)     /           / F (133211@1)  /G /G
A / way wi' / Canada's / muddy / creeks, and / Canada's / fields of / pine,/
     / C (x32010@1)     /            /                  / Am (x02210@1)   /        / C (x32010@1)  / GYour (320003@1)/ land of / wheat is a / goodly land, but / oh, it / is not / mine./
    / C (x32010@1)    /           / Am (x02210@1)   / C (x32010@1)       / Am (x02210@1)  /          / F (133211@1)  / GThe (320003@1)/ heathy / hill, the / grassy / dale. the / daisy / spangled / le - / a,
    / C (x32010@1)     /          /        /            / Am (x02210@1)       / G (320003@1)         /
The / purling / burn and / craggy / linn, Auld / Scotland's / glens give /
C   ///
me. ///

    / C (x32010@1)     /         /          / C (x32010@1)      / Am (x02210@1)    /         / F (133211@1)  /
Oh, / I would / like to / hear a - / gain the / lark on / Tinny's / hi - /
Gll, (320003@1)and
C (x32010@1)     / Am (x02210@1)    / C (x32010@1)         / Am (x02210@1)        /          / C (x32010@1)   / GSee (320003@1)the / wee bit / gowany that / blooms be - / side the / rill. /
     / C (x32010@1)      /           / Am (x02210@1)       / C (x32010@1)     / Am (x02210@1)      /         /
Like / banished / Swiss who / views  a - / far his / Alps with / longing /
F (133211@1)  / Ge'e. (320003@1)/
  / C (x32010@1)       /        /         /           / Am (x02210@1)      /    / G (320003@1)     /
I / gaze up - / on the / morning / star that / shines on / my / count - /
C (x32010@1) / /
ry. / /

   / C (x32010@1)       /        /         /         / Am (x02210@1)       /        / F (133211@1)  /
No / more I'll / win by / Eskdale / glen or / Pentland's / craggy / co - /
G (320003@1) /
mb. /
    / C (x32010@1)      /            /          /         / Am (x02210@1)   /              /
The / days can / ne'er come / back a - / gain of / thirty / years that's /
C (x32010@1)   / Ggone, (320003@1)/
    / C (x32010@1)   /        / Am (x02210@1)     / C (x32010@1)       / Am (x02210@1)      /           / F (133211@1)  /
But / fancy / oft at / midnight / hour will / steal a - / cross the / se - /
G (320003@1) /
ea, / and
C (x32010@1)      /           /          /          / Am (x02210@1)    / G (320003@1)         / C (x32010@1) //
Yester - / eve, in a / pleasant / dream, I / saw the / old count - / ry. //


Break: Flute Solo (one verse instrumental)

     / C (x32010@1)        /            /        /              / Am (x02210@1)        /
Each / well-known / scene that / met my / view brought / childhood's / joys     / F    / G
to / mi - / nd.
    / C (x32010@1)       /         / Am (x02210@1)   / C (x32010@1)      / Am (x02210@1)    /             /
The / blackbird / sang on / Tushey / linn the / song he / sang, "Lang /
C (x32010@1)  / GSy (320003@1)- / ne".
    / C (x32010@1)    /            / Am (x02210@1)      / C (x32010@1)      / Am (x02210@1)      /         /
But / like a / dream time / flies a - / way, a - / gain, the / morning /
F (133211@1)  / Gca (320003@1)- / me,
C (x32010@1)   /         /        /           / Am (x02210@1)     / G (320003@1)          / CI (x32010@1)a - / woke in / Cana - / da, three / thousand / miles frae - / hame.

   / C (x32010@1)    /            / Am (x02210@1)      / C (x32010@1)      / Am (x02210@1)      /         /
Oh / like a / dream time / flies a - / way, a - / gain, the / morning /
F (133211@1)  / Gca (320003@1)- / me,
C (x32010@1)   /         /        /           / Am (x02210@1)     / G (320003@1)          / C (x32010@1)   ///
I a - / woke in / Cana - / da, three / thousand / miles frae - / hame. ///

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