Across The Hills Of Home

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[Chorus]
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You take the low road and I'll take the high
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And back to Scotland my spirit will fly
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To see her one more time before I die
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You take the low road and I'll take the high

[Verse 1]
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Where wide the Murrumbidgee flows, the stately gum and wattle grows
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And deep within the forests tall the laughing kookaburras call
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Across the miles and down the years I dream my eyes too old for tears
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Of other scenes more fair than these, and chase a heather scented breeze
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Across the hills of home

[Chorus]
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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And when the mists of evening rise to hide the starlight in the skies
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My heart with longing sadness fills to see again those Scottish hills
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Once more as in my boyhood days I roam the bracken-covered braes
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And hear them singing in the glen "Oh, will ye no' come back again
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Across the hills of home?"

[Chorus]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
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Fast flows the river, faster still the days of youth that never will
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Return - now only dreams remain, of purple hills and fields of grain
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But still I hear across the miles the haunting call of misty isles
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Above the tidal waters roar but I know that I shall go no more
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Across the hills of home

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