Scarborough Settler's Lament      3/4     Stan Rogers
Standard Tuning / Travis Picking  1 + 2 + 3 +
Recorded by Stan Rogers in 1982 on For the Family.

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A / way wi' / Canada's / muddy / creeks, and / Canada's / fields of / pine,/
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Your / land of / wheat is a / goodly land, but / oh, it / is not / mine./
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The / heathy / hill, the / grassy / dale. the / daisy / spangled / le - / a,
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The / purling / burn and / craggy / linn, Auld / Scotland's / glens give /
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me. ///

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Oh, / I would / like to / hear a - / gain the / lark on / Tinny's / hi - /
G
ll, and
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See the / wee bit / gowany that / blooms be - / side the / rill. /
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Like / banished / Swiss who / views  a - / far his / Alps with / longing /
F    / G
e'e. /
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I / gaze up - / on the / morning / star that / shines on / my / count - /
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ry. / /

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No / more I'll / win by / Eskdale / glen or / Pentland's / craggy / co - /
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mb. /
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The / days can / ne'er come / back a - / gain of / thirty / years that's /
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gone, /
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But / fancy / oft at / midnight / hour will / steal a - / cross the / se - /
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ea, / and
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Yester - / eve, in a / pleasant / dream, I / saw the / old count - / ry. //


Break: Flute Solo (one verse instrumental)

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Each / well-known / scene that / met my / view brought / childhood's / joys     / F    / G
to / mi - / nd.
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The / blackbird / sang on / Tushey / linn the / song he / sang, "Lang /
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Sy - / ne".
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But / like a / dream time / flies a - / way, a - / gain, the / morning /
F    / G
ca - / me,
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I a - / woke in / Cana - / da, three / thousand / miles frae - / hame.

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Oh / like a / dream time / flies a - / way, a - / gain, the / morning /
F    / G
ca - / me,
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I a - / woke in / Cana - / da, three / thousand / miles frae - / hame. ///