Alex O'Brien - The Last Great Scottish Balladeer Lyrics

 Alex O'Brien - The Last Great Scottish Balladeer Lyrics

(feat. Joe Elbee)

Captain Vincent came to town

In the Glengarry Hills

By the time the sun went down

He'd ordered up a chill

Too many men walk all alone

And too few hail the King

This here town's a danger zone

No more shall you sing

MacGregor put your pipes away

And silence all your drums

Duncan's fiddle will not play

One more moment in the sun

Lay your whistles in the sand

And Campbell cut your strings

One sweet day you'll understand

The power of the King

So all the players handed in

Their mandolins and flutes

Captain Vincent always wins

His mighty guns leave us mute

But from the hills came down a man

The last great Scottish balladeer

He chimed his pipes and sang a song

That dried away our tears

In the hills we are as free

As a gentle Highland breeze

We will play, we will play, we will play

Come what may

Captain Vincent wasn't pleased

He threw the traitor into jail

Shackles on his knees

Your song will always fail

Everyone must heed

The power of the King

No more shall you dance

No more shall you sing

In your black cell you shall fade

A rotting corpse consumed by hate

Royalty rise, royalty rise, royalty rise

The bard must die

From a darkness of his hell

The balladeer could hear

A sound he knew so well

A chorus free from all fear

MacGregor on his pipes

And Duncan's fiddle ringing

Campbell strumming for his life

With two-thousand voices singing

In the hills we are as free

As a gentle Highland breeze

We will play, we will play, we will play

Come what may

In the hills we are free

As a gentle Highland breeze

We will play, we will play, we will play

Come what may

Captain Vincent wasn't dumb

No, he could read a scene

He may have even hummed

While he turned his key

He could have shot them all

Like his comrades would have done

But the angels they did call

Let them dance now in the sun

In the hills we are as free

As the gentle Highland breeze

We will play, we will play, we will play

Come what may

In the hills we are as free

As the gentle Highland breeze

We will play, we will play, we will play

Come what may