DOUGIE MACLEAN Royal Scottish National Orchestra John Logan conductor DOUGIE MACLEAN Royal Scottish National Orchestra John Logan conductor 1. THIS LOVE WILL CARRY ......................................................5:48 2. TALKING WITH MY FATHER ................................................4:43 3. GREEN GROW THE RASHES* ..............................................3:34 4. TURNING AWAY ...................................................................4:44 5. TILL TOMORROW ................................................................5:08 6. HOLDING BACK ...................................................................4:55 7. CA’ THE YOWES+ ..................................................................5:16 8. HEILAND HARRY+ ................................................................3:21 9. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS .....................................................4:45 10. THE GAEL ..........................................................................4:07 11. CALEDONIA .......................................................................4:47 Total Running Time: 52 minutes All music and lyrics by Dougie MacLean and orchestral arrangements by John Logan unless noted. All songs published by Limetree Arts and Music. * Lyrics by Robert Burns, arranged by Dougie MacLean and orchestral arrangement by John Logan. + Lyrics by Robert Burns, arranged by Dougie MacLean and orchestral arrangement by Paul Bateman. 2 Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, UK, 26-27 June 2014 Produced by Philip Hobbs & Jamie MacLean Engineered by Philip Hobbs, Jamie MacLean & Robert Cammidge Post-production by Julia Thomas Cover image by Jamie MacLean Design by gmtoucari.com 3 Photograph by Rob McDougall Photograph by Life In Frame Photography 1. THIS LOVE WILL CARRY It’s a thin line that leads us and keeps us all from shame And dark clouds quickly gather along the way we came There’s fear out on the mountain and death out on the plain There’s heartbreak and heartache in the shadow of the flame CHORUS This love will carry This love will carry me I know this love will carry me The strongest web will tangle, the sweetest bloom will fall And somewhere in the distance we try and catch it all Success lasts for a moment and failure’s always near You look down at your blistered hands as turns another year CHORUS These days are golden, they must not waste away Our time is like that flower and soon it will decay And though by storms we’re weakened, uncertainty is sure And like the coming of the dawn it’s ours for evermore CHORUS 6 2. TALKING WITH MY FATHER I’m talking with my father CHORUS He’s talking with his son And I don’t need to look any further There will always be the brave one For the one I have become There’ll be the one who turns away He says listen to that curlew With all too many things left undone That’s a sound I love to hear Oh and so much left to say It’s a strange reflection that we I’m talking with my father look through He’s talking with his son Oh that finally finds us here I don’t need to look any further For the one I have become CHORUS In this place where life’s heart thunders CHORUS In this place where time holds still In this place of harmony And wonder and values not of gold fulfil I’m walking with my father Across these gentle Perthshire hills It’s timeless mysteries that we gather To make the memories that we fill He says don’t fix what is not broken No need to find what’s not been lost It’s a heavy gate we have to open An endless field we have to cross 7 3. GREEN GROW THE RASHES There’s nought but care on ev’ry han’ In ev’ry hour that passes O What signifies the worth o’ man An’ ‘twas na for the lasses O CHORUS Green grow the rashes O Green grow the rashes O The sweetest hours that e’er I spent Were spent amang the lassies O CHORUS The warldly race may riches chase An’ riches still may fly them O An’ when at last they catch them fast Their hearts can ne’er enjoy them O CHORUS Gie me a canty hour at e’en My arms about my dearie O An’ warldly cares an’ warldly men May a’ gae tapsalteerie O 8 4. TURNING AWAY CHORUS In darkness we do what we can In daylight we’re oblivion Our hearts so raw and clear Are turning away, turning away from here On the water we have walked like the fearless child What was fastened we’ve unlocked revealing wondrous wild And in search of confirmation we have jumped into the fire And scrambled with our burning feet through uncontrolled desire CHORUS There’s a well upon the hill from our ancient past Where an age is standing still holding strong and fast And there’s those that try to tame it and to carve it into stone Ah but words cannot extinguish it however hard they’re thrown CHORUS On Loch Etive they have worked with their Highland dreams By Kilcrennan they have nourished in the mountain streams And in searching for acceptance they had given it away Only the children of their children know the price they have to pay CHORUS 9 5. TILL TOMORROW Lift up your glass to tomorrow Say your own sad farewells for today But how can parting be such a sweet sorrow When you can’t find the right words to say Oh I can see I will have to be moving I’ve been standing out here for too long But I know all the friends I’ll be losing I will see them again further on There’s a time when crying comes easy When there’s more to be lost than be won And I know that tomorrow might see me On the other side of the sun And I’ve been looking in every direction For the places that I used to know But on making a closer inspection I noticed I didn’t know which way to go So we’ll finish our glasses together And we know we can no longer hide And the silence will linger forever Oh it is there and it helps you decide That it’s not as it seemed in the stories That you made when you wanted to dream So you pick up your pieces before you find out That you might have been left in between 10 6. HOLDING BACK It’s in the darkness of believing CHORUS It’s in the shadows where we have to stand Soon all the promises are broken Beside the loving and the grieving And expectation passes underhand O I’ll never understand And not a gentle word is spoken It’s in the way it has to reach us O I’ll never understand It’s in the restless of the shifting sand It’s in the darkness of believing And all the truth it has to teach us It’s in the shadows where we have O I’ll never understand to stand Beside the loving and the grieving CHORUS O I’ll never understand Holding back to listen to the ocean Holding back to dance inside the storm CHORUS I may be foolish but I don’t care As long as you are there From edge to edge we take our pleasure We follow blindly each insane command We’re judged by some eternal measure O I’ll never understand O and peace is child to no-one We’re held together by an endless strand First to be woven then to be undone O I’ll never understand 11 7. CA’ THE YOWES Ca’ the yowes tae the knowes Ca’ them whare the heather grows Ca’ them whare the burnie rowes My bonnie dearie Hark, the mavis’ evening song Sounding Clouden’s woods among Then a-faulding let us gang My bonnie dearie We’ll gae doon by Clouden’s side Through the hazels spreading wide O’er the waves that sweetly glide Tae the moon sae clearly Fair and lovely as thou art You hae stown my very heart I can die but canna part My bonnie dearie Ca’ the yowes tae the knowes Ca’ them whare the heather grows Ca’ them whare the burnie rowes My bonnie dearie 12 8. HEILAND HARRY My Harry was a gallant blade Fou stately straid he on the plain Noo he’s banished far awa’ And oh he’ll no’ come back again CHORUS Oh for him back again Oh for him back again I wud gi’ a’ Knockhaspie’s land For Heiland Harry back again When a’ the lave gang tae their bed I wander dowie up the glen Sit me doon and greet ma fill For Heiland Harry back again CHORUS Oh were some villains hingit high And ilke body had their ain I might see the joyful sight Of Heiland Harry back again CHORUS 13 9. MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Something happened here in this cold deserted place Where mighty walls have vanished leaving not a trace Something’s not quite right where ravens cast a guilty eye And hidden reason still continues to deny CHORUS But Mary I can feel your pain I can hear your heart breaking On the silent fields of Fotheringay I can hear your heart breaking We give our might to men who take it as their own And in our name destroy with every thrown stone We stand the simple fools we watch them break it down But the stolen voice lies silent it cannot make a sound CHORUS We’ve found a darkness here belief has withered well away And time has sacrificed but no-one dares to say Something’s not quite right where ravens cast a guilty eye And hidden reason still continues to deny CHORUS 10.