Alasdair Roberts & James Green: The Ugly Mountain.

Words: Timothy Neat.  Music: Alasdair Roberts.  Arrangement: James Green.

James Green: harmoniflute, slide guitar, organ, percussion
Alasdair Roberts: piano, 'cello, vocal
Recorded in Glasgow and Sheffield.
Mixed by James Green at Meersbrook Manor, Sheffield.
Wipe Out Music/Domino Publishing Co
Originally released on 'Between the Late and the Early' CD produced for the 187th Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, 2013.

Alasdair Roberts & James Green: The Ugly Mountain

A song written and performed by my father Alan Thomas Roberts (1946-2001).

The Sang That Never Ends (Alan Thomas Roberts, 1999)

Frae the mists o’ time they came
The Picts their brochs, the Celts their kings
Romans came and failed to conquer
Turned home wi’ broken wings

Shouted loud by Bruce and Wallace
Frae Arbroath o’er land and sea
Lang forgotten, still it haunts me
The sang, the sang that never ends

Frae Columba’s isle they travelled
Wi’ the Word both near and far
Light o’ the world unto the nations
A sang o’ peace instead o’ war

The Hammer cam wi’ men aplenty
Mounted knights and a’ their show
Turned defeated by Scots united
Turned hame to rue the day

Shouted loud by Bruce and Wallace
Frae Arbroath o’er land and sea
Lang forgotten, still it haunts me
The sang, the sang that never ends

Jamie’s flooers destroyed and withered
Darien’s plagues and Scotland’s loss
Estates and lords and settlements and siller
Near put an end tae your song

Culloden, empty glens and servitude
Scattering the seed throughout the world
But pipes and drums and empire’s glories
The sang forgotten and unsung

Shouted loud by Bruce and Wallace
Frae Arbroath o’er land and sea
Lang forgotten, still it haunts me
The sang, the sang that never ends

Ships and steel, young deaths aplenty
Red Clyde, peace and noo Faslane
But century ends and memories are stirring
The sang, the sang is heard again

Shouted loud by Bruce and Wallace
Frae Arbroath o’er land and sea
Once forgotten, still it haunts me
The sang, the sang that never ends


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