Capo 4th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Here hangs an open landscape

A wild and huge frontier

From a harsh and a barren wasteland

Through the grave to the promised field

You came, you trapped, you charted

You laid the railroads and the schemes

And you tamed this land by enterprise

And by the power of your dreams

 But you made this Clan great

 And you made this nation bloom

 And you rose

 With your people through the new world

 Like a rocket to the moon

Bridge

Oh ho oh

From the olden coasts of Ireland

From the Hebridean shores

With the forgotten chosen ones

Running from Europe in droves

(Chorus)

There's a town in Manitoba

They say the windows touch the sky

But across the brine the shipyards close

In this garden flowers die

Still the homelands divide us

Like your blood red brothers of the plains

But where they grieve a candle still burns

A prayer from a flicker to a flame