CAPO: 2nd FretINTRO: C
On a bright September day in fall
We sailed away from Montreal
And I hung upon the railing high
And I waved the world I knew goodbye
Sailed from home across the sea
The other side, the heart of me
And I just stood and waved my hand
In my world in the promised land
And we ran like hares, ran through the close
Doon tae the burn, in spate it rose
We stood on the bridge by the bowling green
laughed our words in steady streams
The arc of stone across the river
And a moment hung in time forever
And the sun shone on us, every man
In my world in the promised land
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Night came black, with death adorning
Grampa’s dead and Granny’s mourning
Brithers and sisters all came doon
Sat there greeting in the living room
The emptiness of what was left
We sat there in that house of death
And we hung our heads and wrung our hands
In my world in the promised land
So I never saw him lying there
I never climbed the scaffold stair
My father left it up to me
To choose to see or not to see
But death’s a road we walk alone
But I read the words upon the stone
He’s sitting still, his pipe in hand
In my world in the promised land
Oh, he’s sitting still, his pipe in hand
Oh, in my world in the promised land
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