The Summer Walkers Chords

Key: E Tuning: E A D G B E E Sometimes when you journey Through the pages of a book A You're taken places beyond words You let them speak their truths B Today I've opened treasures That my eyes could scarce believe A They're the words of confirmation Everything that makes me sing E Summer comes to Sutherland And you bend the hazel bow A You harness up the ponies And you head out on the road B By Kilbreck and Altnaharra You journey to your rest A With the guiding might of Suilven For the campsites of the West

E And it's up by the Shin And up by the Naver A E And the long winding shores B Of Loch Maree E By Ben Hope and Ben Loyal By Stack and by Arkle A E The road reaches long B E Now the summer is here E No, your words are not of sentiment Shallow or untrue A But wells of living water From their clear deep sides we drew B The songs, the tin, the horses This country's great and ancient wilds A Your faith in God and man and nature And the keenness of your guile E And it's up by the Shin And up by the Naver A E And the long winding shores B Of Loch Maree E By Ben Hope and Ben Loyal By Stack and by Arkle A E The road reaches long B E Now the summer is here E So have you stood out on Coldbackie At the time the sun goes down A Or up on the king of campsites In the hills about Brae Tongue B That's when music filled your evenings It's all so different now, this world A For you were the summer walkers And the fishers of the pearl E So as we close another chapter That we label Archive Gold A Still the Conon flows each morning And the dew falls on the sloe B But today you took me walking Through a land that we have lost A While our children sit at websites With no access to the cost E And it's up by the Shin And up by the Naver A E And the long winding shores B Of Loch Maree E By Ben Hope and Ben Loyal By Stack and by Arkle A E The road reaches long B E Now the summer is here