3.21. Day Of Days – The 30th Anniversary Concert (2004 Sony Music)

3.21.1. Going Home
3.21.2. Hearthammer
3.21.3. Protect and Survive
3.21.4. Big Sky
3.21.5. Hearts of olden Glory
3.21.6. Siol Ghoraidh - The Geneology Of Goraidh
3.21.7. Proterra
3.21.8. Running to the Light
3.21.9. The Stamping Ground
3.21.10. Maymorning
3.21.11. Faileas Air An Airigh - Shadow On The Sheiling
3.21.12. Book of golden Stories
3.21.13. Day of Days
3.21.14. All the Miles
3.21.15. A Reiteach – The Reiteach

 

   
   

3.21.1. Going Home
In the distant day was dawning
Comes to me the early morning
Something tells me that I’m going home
The brand new sun shines bright
From the darkness fields of light
Something tells me that I’m going home
Going home
Where the summers coming in
And the moonlight on the river
Shows me where I’ve been
Soft the rain gently falling
Lightly ‘cross the city morning
I get the feeling that I’m going home
Across the moorland, past the mountains
O’er the rivers beside the new stream
Something tells me that I’m going home
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
As the trains rolling nearer
Ah, the feeling just to be there,
Something tells me that I’m going home
Now the skylines reach my eyes
The ridge stands out in highland skies
I just can’t believe I’m going home
Going home
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3.21.2. Hearthammer
With the eyes of a child the wonder of it all
I used to search the stars at night and I felt so safe and small
Sweet sounds from a Merseytown and my nursery God
I wanted to ride with Yuri Gagarin as he circled all around my world
Hearthammer and I lose control
Hearthammer
Lying under the covers. Radio on
Settle down with Caroline as she sailed all summer long
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Mining Hearts of Gold
I think it was somewhere post Rubber Soul
Hearthammer and I lose control
Hearthammer
Hearthammer and I lose control
Hearthammer
There was the first caress
There were the Labour years
There was the man that walked the moon something I never really believed
The Di Stefano twists the Charlton goals
Now I'm still here with the eyes of a child the wonder never grows old
Hearthammer and I lose control
Hearthammer
Hearthammer and I lose control
Hearthammer
Hearthammer and I lose control
Hearthammer
The wonder never grows old
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3.21.3. Protect and Survive
The red hot sun burns up the hill
The winter's bride, the summer's king
I tramp these acres and I feel
Once upon a time
Then it seemed that everything
You saw and touched and felt was real
You turned the tap and you turned the wheel
Breathing free
Once in a lifetime
You live and love
Once in a lifetime
You die
Once in a moment
The sun goes down
Protect and survive
Now you search the open evening skies
Trace the memory in your eyes
For the prophet's hard rain and the deluge
Lie in tears around your door
Once there were trees and livestock here
A mother's love, the warnings clear
But you chose to turn away from fear
Breathing free
(Chorus)
Protect and survive
Protect and survive
Now there's a faceless cross on a distant hill
A wasted voice, a silent scream
Where the lovers love and the dreamers dream
You stand and dream alone
You took your sacrifice to the gods of war
Traded your children's lives for a mess of gold
And you beat your ploughshares into swords
Breathing free
(Chorus)
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3.21.4. Big Sky
The light is on me
All time is here
I'm going down to Clachan
To stem the rush of years
Big sky above me
Powerlines overhead
I get lifted up enraptured
I keep falling at your feet
I'm looking over colourfields
Past the white sands
And our human years
And it's all waiting here
Breaking the seed
It's coming again
Gathering the wind
Returning to claim a harvest
I'm lifted where I stand
On the never-ending land
I'm coming to a sense of home
Wind through the barley
Your early dream
A rising choir of birdsong
Your fields of summer green
It's all passing over
I've no complaints
We're just a row of unlit candles
Waiting at the gate of saints
I'm living on the borderline
Between the moment
And the shining miles
The far stretching stones
All the lines of the sown
It's coming again
Gathering the wind
Returning to claim a harvest
I'm lifted where I stand
On the never-ending land
I'm coming to a sense of home
The light of ancient shine
On your ordinary lives
We joyed went to the fires of harvest
So open up the land
Open up the sand
Returning again in Clachan
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3.21.5. Hearts of olden Glory
There's thunder clouds
Round the hometown bay
As I walk out
In the rain
Through the sepia showers
And the photoflood days
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Of life
And though the water's
Black as night
The colours of Scotland
Leave you young inside
There must be a place
Under the sun
Where hearts of olden glory
Grow young
There's a vision
Coming soon
Through the faith
That cleans your wound
Hearts of olden glory
Will be renewed
Down the glens
Where the headlands stand
I feel a healing
Through this land
A cross for a people
Like wind through your hands
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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3.21.6. Siol Ghoraidh - The Geneology Of Goraidh
Clann mo theaghlaich
Clann mo theaghlaich
Clann mo theaghlaich fhein
Clann mo theaghlaich
Clann mo theaghlaich
Clann mo theaghlaich fhein
Ochd deug seisreach
Air raontainn Aird a' Mhorrain
Na fir a' treabhadh
An la a thainig na Sleitich
Siol Ghoraidh
Mac Ruairidh
Clann Raghnaill
Clann Dhomhaill
Linn gu linn
Ainm gu ainm
Air an sgiath seo dh 'Uibhist
'S mi beo an drasd
Clann mo theaghlaich
Clann mo theaghlaich
Clann mo theaghlaich fhein
Dubh dath na fala
A dhoirt 'na tuil gu talamh
Saighead claidheamh
Tro chairdeas corp an Udail
Siol Ghoraidh
Mac Ruairidh
Clann Raghnaill
Clann Dhomhaill
Linn gu linn
Ainm gu ainm
Air an sgiath seo dh 'Uibhist
'S mi beo an drasd
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Linn gu linn
Ainm gu ainm
Air an sgiath seo dh 'Uibhist
'S mi beo an drasd
Eighteen teams of horses
On the field of Aird a Mhorrain
the young men were ploughing
On the day the Sleat people came
The geneology of Goraidh
The sons of Ruairi
The sons of Ranald
The children of Donald
The children of my own family
Generation to generation
From one name to another
My time is now
To walk this corner of Uist
Black was the colour of the blood
That flowed like a flood to the land
The arrow, the long sword
Through the generosity of the Udal people
The geneology of Goraidh
The sons of Ruairi
The sons of Ranald
The children of Donald
The children of my own family
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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3.21.7. Proterra
Proterra
As I walk along these shores
I am the history within
As I climb the mountainside
Breaking Eden again
Dark the day, dark the night
The warring dust, the morning tribe
Crushed by a million suns
Here the heart of you lies
Over land and sea
I'll come fighting for you
Over land and sea
A dawn is breaking before us
Proterra, take this hand
The open wound, the promised land
Breaking the waves, spread the oars
Cast our badge for the shore
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3.21.8. Running to the Light
Running round the sacred mountain
The rushing stream
Feel the power
In everything
By the water. where the air is clear
Surrender everything
Old hearts grow younger again
They promise bring
The greenest. plants are tender
They're full of sap in spring
Empty the places of the mind
Running to the light
Running to the light
Those who stride too far too soon
Will not hold pace
Only the calm
Will win the race
Through the forest, the sea of mountain pine
Surrender everything
Only those who
Greatness see in little things
Worthy are the simple
They're happy in their ways
Self will wither out of sight
Running to the light
Running to the light
Arise soul
Soar above the singing river
Go lying down
Into the ground
Quickened by the stream
When all is said and done
The race moves on
Running, running
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3.21.9. The Stamping Ground
April comes to the new grass on the hills of gold
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o
Where winter falls in the long cold north
Black waters wait in the Ice and snow
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o
Black waters wait in the Ice and sun
Through the glens where your great rivers run
So we tend and we nurtur all the seeds we've sown
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o
Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow
till the fields turn ripe and a harvest stored
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o
Through all the frosts and rains the west winds blow
We will wait here till the winter's end
So it's blood on blood, our bond, our word
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o
For the strength and weakness of our days
is to take you there on a journey shared
Tha feur ur air bar an tallamh, bar an tallamh, horribh o
So take this ring, make it sparkle and glow
it's much greater than we may ever know
Back on the stamping ground
to where it all began
Back on the stamping ground
We come again
(Translation: There's a new grass growing on the top of the soil)
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3.21.10. Maymorning
I'm alive again on a Maymorning
Going to wipe the slate clean
Follow my dreams
All the yearning buds are here again
With the the promise of a new life to come
Spring is here again
The sun is melting over the hills
All our roads are waiting
To be revealed
For this in history has brought us to here
Now it's all there for the taking
The day is what you see
The light's returning, the work is in hand
All the cynics have vanished
From where we stand
All the chances wasted are drawing me near
And all around there's new life rising
From the winter fields
I'm alive again
I'm alive again
3.21.11. Faileas Air An Airigh - Shadow On The Sheiling
Tha faileas air an airigh
Faileas air an airigh
Tha 'n long a-muigh 'ceann a bhaigh
Air madainn cheitean trath
Tha grian ar cuimhne ag eiridh
Grian ar cuimhne ag eiridh
A' siubhal sraidean duthaich ghalld'
Tro bhailtean saoghal chein
Tha'm feasgar cuin 's na siantan blath
Tha grian 's an iar mar mheall de'n or
An cuan mar sgathan gorm gun sgleo
Is bu mhor mo mhian bhi 'n uibhist leat
Togaidh sinn ar fonn an ard
Togaidh sinn ar fonn an ard
`s ged' tha mi fada bhuat
Cha dhealaich sinn a' chaoidh
There's a shadow on the sheiling
A shadow on the sheiling
The ship is waiting
At the head of the bay
Early on a may morning
The sun of our memory is rising
The sun of our memory is rising
Walking the streets of foreign countries
And the cities of another era
The evening is calm and the skies are warm
The sun is in the west, a great ball of gold
The ocean is like a mirror, blue without blemish
And great is my desire to be in uist with you
We will lift up our voices
We will lift up our voices
Although I am now so far from you
We will never sever
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3.21.12. Book of golden Stories
Book of golden stories
Days of olden notes
Now the autumn leaves are falling
We'll meet on the edges
Memories, no regrets
Now the minstrel boy is calling
But as long as I can see the morning
In miracles, much more than I can say
It's enough to keep me still believing
In drifting hearts so far away.
You took me through the pages
Good happiness is shared
Lost in the web of changes
This could be the last dance
Waltzing in the rain
'Till the Minstrel comes to save us.
Chorus
Chorus
Yes, as long as I can see the morning
And blossom comes to bud again in spring
It's enough to keep me still believing
Your memory is everything
Book of golden stories
Book of golden stories
Book of golden stories
Book of golden stories
Days of olden notes
Now the autumn leaves are falling
3.21.13. Day of Days
Instrumental
3.21.14. All the Miles
Instrumental
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3.21.15. A Reiteach – The Reiteach
Bi mo leannan geal is alainn
Le briathran geallaidh thar chaich
Bi sinn druidhe an smuid an aoibhnis
An oidhche phosas mo run
Nam shuidhe cluinntinn ceol a' reitich
's duilich cur an aghaidh dan
A' feitheamh son a lamh a mhaireas
An oidhche phosas mo run
Tog glainne mhor na slainte
Thoir an cearcall chun an lar
Theid sinn cuairt taobh cuil na gealaich
An oidhche phosas mo run
Tha i na seasamh aig a` reiteach
Theid na reultan bun os cionn
's theid a ghrian air chall gu madainn
An oidhche phosas mo run
Togaidh sinn horo ghealaidh
Horo ghealaidh horo togaidh
Sinn horo ghealaidh
Horo ghealaidh horo
My love will be unblemished
With the words of devotion
Beyond all others
We will be drenched in the stupor of joy
The night my love weds
I am sitting listening to the music of the reiteach
It is impossible to stand against destiny
Waiting for the eternal bond the night my love
weds
Lift high the glass of celebration
Take the circle to the dance floor
It will take us to the far side of the moon
The night my love weds
She is now standing at the reiteach
There the stars will lose alignment
The sun will go missing till morning
The night my love weds
Let's celebrate
Let's celebrate