C
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses.
F C G
In you let the minions of luxury rove.
C
Restore me the rocks where snowflake reposes
F C G C
If still they are sacred to freedom and love
C F C
Yet Caledonia beloved are thy mountains,
G
Round their white summit your elements war.
C
Tho’ cataracts foam instead of smooth flowing fountains,
C G C
I sigh for the valleys of dark Lochnagarr.
C
Ah, there my young footsteps in infancy wandered.
F C G
My cap was my bonnet, my cloak was my plaid.
C
On chieftains long perished my memories pondered
F C G C
As daily I strayed through the pine covered glade.
C F C
I sought not my home till the days dying glory.
G
Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star
C
For fancy was cheered by traditional glory
C G C
Disclosed by the natives of dark Lochnagarr.
C
Shades of the dead, have I not heard your voices
F C G
Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale?
C
Surely the soul of the hero rejoices.
F C G C
And rides on the wind o’er his own Highland vale
C F C
Round Lochnagarr, while the stormy mist gathers,
G
Winter presides in his cold icy car;
C
Clouds there encircle the forms of my fathers;
C G C
They dwell in the tempests of dark Lochnagarr.
PLAYED SLOWLY
C F C
Yet, Caledonia beloved are thy mountains
C G C
I sigh for the valley of dark Lochnagarr…
C
Ill starred now the brave did no vision foreboding.
F C G
Tell you that fate had forsaken your cause
C
How were you destined to die at Culloden?
F C G C
Though victory crowned not your fall with applause.
C F C
Still were you happy in deaths earthly slumbers
G
Tae sleep wi’ your clan in the caves of Braemar
C
The pibroch resounds tae the pipers loud numbers
C G C
Your deeds on the echoes o’ dark Lochnagarr.
C
Years have rolled on Lochnagarr, since I left you
F C G
Years must elapse ere I tread you again
C
Through nature of verdure and flowers has bereft you,
F C G C
Yet still you are dearer than Albion’s plain
C F C
England, thy beauties are tame and domestic
G
To one who has roved on the mountains afar;
C
Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic
C G C
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagarr
Repeat fading
C G C
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagarr
C G C
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagarr
C G C
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagarr