LIVE AND HOPE AGAIN

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Drooping over Garbhein, veiled in sombre grey
See the sky is weeping all its light away.
Heedless of the magic and music of the spheres
Drooping over Canmore, above the falling tears.

Land of falling tears and broken promises
Land of broken navvies, famine and distress,
Land of crime and struggle, land of futle strife
Land with acquiescence but land now with new life.

 

Chorus

See amid the shadows where this country lies
Justice stands, the future lashes from her eyes.
After thy new birth of long travail and pain.
Rise she says to us all. Live and hope again.

Rise she says to us all, live and hope again.

Ruse she says to us all, live and hope again

She’s not dead but sleeping; surely she shall wake.
In her mighty hands her life for us take.
Drink the wine of courage, break the bread of life,
Bear the price of freedom foremost in the strife.

Soon above the Blackwater clothed in sombre grey
Joyous winds shall scatter clouds and mists away;
Scotland’s sun is shining, strong and free again,
And the hills are all the greener for the rain.

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Chorus

See amid the shadows where this country lies
Justice stands, the future lashes from her eyes.
After thy new birth of long travail and pain.
Rise she says to us all. Live and hope again.

Rise she says to us all, live and hope again.

Rise she says to us all, live and hope again

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