Dark Lochnagar chords by The Corries

Chords with lyrics

C majorC
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens o' roses.
 FF      C majorC         G+G
In you let the minions of luxury rove.
   C majorC
Restore me the rocks where snowflake reposes
   FF        C majorC    G+G     C majorC
If still they are sacred to freedom and love
 C majorC       FF      C majorC
Brave Caledonia, dear are thy mountains,
                    G+G
Round their white summits though elements war.
   C majorC
Tho' cataracts roar 'stead of smooth flowing fountains,
  C majorC            G+G    C majorC
I sigh for the valleys o' dark Lochnagarr.

 C majorC
Ah, there my young footsteps in infancy wandered.
 FF      C majorC            G+G
My cap was my bonnet, my cloak was my plaid.
   C majorC
On chieftains long perished my memory lingered
   FF        C majorC     G+G      C majorC
As daily I strayed through the pine covered glade.
  C majorC              FF      C majorC
I sought not my home till the days dying glory.
                      G+G
Gave place to the rays o' the bright polar star
   C majorC
My fancy was cheered by the bold martial story
   C majorC            G+G    C majorC
As told by the sons o' Dark Lochnagar.


 C majorC
Years have rolled on, Lochnagar, since I left you
 FF         C majorC          G+G
Years must roll on ere I see you again
   C majorC
Though Nature of verdure and flowers bereft you
   FF         C majorC     G+G      C majorC
Yet still art thou dearer than Albion's plain
  C majorC              FF      C majorC
 England! thy beauties are tame and domestic
                G+G
 To one who has roved on the mountains afar
   C majorC
Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic
   C majorC             G+G    C majorC
The steep frowning glories o' wild Lochnagar.

 C majorC
Ill starred now the brave did no vision foreboding.
 FF         C majorC          G+G
Tell you that fate had forsaken our cause
   C majorC
Yet were you destined to die at Culloden?
  FF         C majorC      G+G      C majorC
Though victory crowned not your fall with applause.
  C majorC              FF      C majorC
Yet were you happy in death's earthly slumber
                      G+G
Tae sleep wi' your clan in the caves of Braemar
   C majorC
The pibroch resounds tae the piper's loud numbers
   C majorC            G+G    C majorC
Your deeds on the echoes o' dark Lochnagar.


PLAYED SLOWLY
 C majorC        FF       C majorC
Brave Caledonia dear are thy mountains
         C majorC     G+G    C majorC
I sigh for the valley o' dark Lochnagar


Repeat fading

  C majorC              G+G    C majorC
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagar
  C majorC              G+G    C majorC
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagar
  C majorC              G+G    C majorC
The steep sounding glories of dark Lochnagar