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Gordon Bok - Piper's Refrain lyrics
I'll tell it to you as the told it me, By the glow of the campfire burning- By the banks of the water, where we sported and played, They once faced the fury of battle. CHORUS: And up to the Champlain came the Highland Brigade, The pipes and the drummers, playing "Scotland the Brave." But when they sailed home, the pipers' refrain Was, "Oh, how cruel the volley." To one Duncan Campbell, there came it a dream That he'd meet his fate where he never had been- Where the blue waters roll and the stickerbush tear, it's "Travel well, Duncan, I'll wait on you there, For the French and the Indian have challenged our king." To a soldier like Duncan, no need to explain- "'Tis many a time I've traveled the waves To find my fate in the fire." CHORUS From Fort William Henry, the boats have shoved off To the north of Lake George in the morning, To a place the Frenchmen call Carillon, And the Indians Ticonderoga. And the words struck Duncan like a thunderbolt there, Everyone knew of the warning: "So give us a tune to remember me by, For tomorrow I'll not be returning." CHORUS When the gunpowder flashed, the Highlanders died, Never again to walk the hillside. In the wilderness green, in the sun and the rain, It's here they're forever remaining. CHORUS And I've told it to you as they told it to me, Of one Duncan Campbell and the Highland Brigade- Where the campfire crackles in the summertime's wane, Through the mist on the water, comes the pipers' refrain. CHORUS |
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