Alba chords by Runrig

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC


🎸 Verse 1:
DmDm      C majorC
Air sgiath a' seoladh nan neoil
DmDm      C majorC
'S an domhain liath
DmDm           C majorC
Mar dhealbh a' tighinn beo tro na sgothan
   DmDm       C majorC
'S mi a' tilleadh gu tir

🎸 Verse 2:
DmDm    C majorC
Alba nam beanntan ard
DmDm       C majorC
Nan acraichean lom
DmDm        C majorC
Thairis air na lochan mointich
  DmDm        C majorC
Nan coilltean 's nan gleann


🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba


Link:
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC


🎸 Verse 3:
DmDm        C majorC
Ach 'se sealladh leointe is gann
DmDm             C majorC
Tha an seo aig ceann thall an linn
DmDm      C majorC
Talamh alainn nan daoine
     DmDm         C majorC
Fhathast an lamhan duine no dithis

🎸 Verse 4:
DmDm        C majorC
Cuibhlean stolda mu dheas
DmDm       C majorC
Na fasaichean a tuath
DmDm           C majorC
An taigh-mor falamh an Dun-Eideann
  DmDm      C majorC
Gun chumhachd gun ghuth


🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba


Link:
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC


🎸 Verse 5:
DmDm         C majorC
Sibhse chuir achadh ri achadh
DmDm    C majorC
Taigh ri taigh
DmDm       C majorC
Gus nach bi ait anns an tir
  DmDm         C majorC
An gabh sibh comhnaidh air leth


🎸 Verse 6:
DmDm             C majorC
Ach 's math dhomh bhith seo an drasd
DmDm         C majorC
A augmentedA cur failt air a' bhlas
DmDm          C majorC
'San tir a tha cho ur dhomh an diugh
     DmDm         C majorC
Is a bha i nuair bha mi 'nam phais


🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba


Link:
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC
DmDm C majorC DmDm C majorC


🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba
A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G
A-a-a-a-lba


Translation

This flight is sailing through the clouds
And the blue heavens
The homeland appears like a developing photograph
Through the mists as I return to land

I see Scotland of the high mountains
And the empty acres
Flying low across the moorland lochs
The forests and the glens

Scotland

Scotland


But it's a wounding and a hollow sight
Here as we reach the end of the century
The beautiful soil of the people
Still in the hands of the few

I see the wheels of industry at a standstill
And the northern lands wasted
And the empty house in Edinburgh
Without authority or voice


You that have laid field upon field
House upon house
Till there be nowhere for you to be placed alone
In the midst of all the earth

But it is good for me to be here now
As I welcome the warmth
In this land that's as exciting for me today
As it was the day I was born