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