Echoes of Scotland

from Echoes by Lindsey Shields

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I was commissioned to write a song about the migration of Scots to other parts of the world, for an Edinburgh style tattoo staged in New Zealand's very Scottish city of Dunedin. This is the old name for Edinburgh with many streets and suburbs named after it's northern hemisphere counterpart.

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Echoes of ScotlanThe old songs resound in these new hills
We dance the old kilted dances still
And for every ship that to these shores comes
New glens echo with the pipes and the drums

We left Scotia and travelled the great southern oceans
And we crossed the Atlantic wide
But though we have settled these far distant shores
In our hearts ye will ever abide

We sailed on the tall ships all timber and canvas
Boarded the great liners from the steel ship yards
Took all we could carry, enough to get by on
At times the going was hard, oh oh hard.

It’s the same moon, but a different constellation
The same sun shines in these foreign skies
The same old earth, just a different location
The same heart beating down the generation lines
It’s the same old heartbeat

The pipes and the drums

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from Echoes, released May 8, 2018

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