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Mountain Men
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Jethro Tull
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The poacher and his daughter
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Throw soft shadows on the water in the night.
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A thin moon slips behind them
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As they pull the net with no betraying light.
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And later on the coast road, I meet them
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And the old man winks a smile.
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And who am I to fast deny the right
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To take a fish once in a while?
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I walk with them, they wish me luck
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When I ship out on the Sunday from the kyle.
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And from the church I hear them singing
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As the ship moves sadly from the pier.
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Oh, poacher's daughter, Sunday best,
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Two hundred brave souls share the farewell tear.
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There's a house on the hillside, where the drifting sands are born.
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Lay down and let the slow tide wash me
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Back to the land where I came from.
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Where the mountain men are kings
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And the sound of the piper counts for everything.
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Did my tour, did my duty. I did all they asked of me.
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Died in the trenches and at Alamein
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... Died in the Falklands on T. V.
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Going back to the mountain kings
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Where the sound of the piper counts for everything.
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Long generations from the Isles
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Sent to tread the foreign miles
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Where the spiral ages meet.
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Felt naked dust beneath their feet.
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Future sun called winds to blow
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And the past and present hard-eyed crow
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Flew hunting high and circling low over blackened plains of Eden.
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There's a child and a woman praying for an end to the mystery.
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Hoping for a word in a letter
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Fair wind-blown from across the sea
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To where the mountain men are kings
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And the sound of the piper counts for eveything.
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There's a house on the hillside, where the drifting sands are born.
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Lay down and let the slow tide wash me
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Back to the land where I came from.
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Where the mountain men are kings
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And the sound of the piper counts for everything.
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Where the real mountain men are kings
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And the sound of the piper counts for everything.
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Feel the naked dust beneath my toes
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While the future sun calls winds to blow
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And the past and present black-eyed crow
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Flies hunting high and circling low
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Between dream mountains of our Eden.
Mountain Men (2005 Remaster)
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