Alex O'Brien - The Last Great Scottish Balladeer (feat. Joe Elbee)

Captain Vincent came to town
In the Glengarry Hills
By the time the sun went down
He'd ordered up a chill
Too many men walk all alone
And too few hail the King
This here town's a danger zone
No more shall you sing

MacGregor put your pipes away
And silence all your drums
Duncan's fiddle will not play
One more moment in the sun
Lay your whistles in the sand
And Campbell cut your strings
One sweet day you'll understand
The power of the King

So all the players handed in
Their mandolins and flutes
Captain Vincent always wins
His mighty guns leave us mute
But from the hills came down a man
The last great Scottish balladeer
He chimed his pipes and sang a song
That dried away our tears

In the hills we are as free
As a gentle Highland breeze
We will play, we will play, we will play
Come what may

Captain Vincent wasn't pleased
He threw the traitor into jail
Shackles on his knees
Your song will always fail
Everyone must heed
The power of the King
No more shall you dance
No more shall you sing

In your black cell you shall fade
A rotting corpse consumed by hate
Royalty rise, royalty rise, royalty rise
The bard must die

From a darkness of his hell
The balladeer could hear
A sound he knew so well
A chorus free from all fear
MacGregor on his pipes
And Duncan's fiddle ringing
Campbell strumming for his life
With two-thousand voices singing

In the hills we are as free
As a gentle Highland breeze
We will play, we will play, we will play
Come what may
In the hills we are free
As a gentle Highland breeze
We will play, we will play, we will play
Come what may

Captain Vincent wasn't dumb
No, he could read a scene
He may have even hummed
While he turned his key
He could have shot them all
Like his comrades would have done
But the angels they did call
Let them dance now in the sun

In the hills we are as free
As the gentle Highland breeze
We will play, we will play, we will play
Come what may
In the hills we are as free
As the gentle Highland breeze
We will play, we will play, we will play
Come what may

Written by:
Alex O'Brien

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