Leaving Strathconon chords by Runrig

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
G                D      G
We're the emigrant ones, not the last in the line
G              C    G
You're your father's son. and I am mine
G                C      G
And all of our northwords turn distant and small


   C        G     D      G
In the end they mean nothing, no. nothing at all
G                    D      G
Right here's the river's source, and it flows out to the world
G                C      G
And the heart of Caledonia is drowning in its flood
G                     C      G
Was there hunger in our striving, did the light shine in our dark
   C        G       D      G
Was everything we ever needed always right here from the start

🎸 Chorus:
Em    G
Please believe me
C      G
Something in me died
C      G
Leaving Strathconon
     D       F   C G F   C G
And your mountains behind


🎸 Verse 2:
G                      D      G
We stood on a hundred gangways. that's the way it's always been
G                C    G
I walked out beyond Calvary with all my kith and kin
G                C    G
In the war of the worlds we conquer and roam
    C        G     D      G
Lie the wounds that stay bleeding and raw in the soul


🎸 Chorus:
Em    G
Please believe me
C      G
Something in me died
C      G
Leaving Strathconon
     D       G
And your mountains behind

Em    G
Please believe me
C      G
Something in me died
C      G
Leaving Strathconon
     D       G
And your mountains behind


🎸 Solo:
C  G  C  G  C  G D G
C  G  C  G  C  G D G


🎸 Verse 3:
G            D      G
After the raging flame, the embers burn slow
G                      C    G
We're leaving. leaving. leaving, till there's nowhere left to go
G                      C    G
The seas. the slums the battlefields. the shipyards. the tides
    C           G         D      G
The straths, the glens. the drove roads. all the prairies and the mines
G                  D      G
It's a still. autumn morning, and it covers Loch Meig
G                    C    G
And all the trees across the valley in a blaze of dying green
G                    C    G
I've seen too many tail-lights, didn't need to say goodbye
      C        G         D      G
We're just souls across a shrinking world in a distant starlit night


🎸 Chorus:
Em    G
Please believe me
C      G
Something in me died
C      G
Leaving Strathconon
     D     G
And your mountains behind
Em    G
Please believe me
C      G
Something in me died
C      G
Leaving Strathconon
     D      G
And your father's home behind