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12-string Guitar: Uist Tramping Song

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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Uist is part of the Outer Hebrides. With one hundred and ninety freshwater lochs in South Uist, it is a walking and fishing paradise. This song I found in the BBC Schools Broadcast 'Singing Together' where its origins were given as music written by J R Bannerman and English Words by H S Roberton.

Uist Tramping Song
Traditional
No capo

G
Come along, come along, let us foot it out together,
                                                        C                        D                       
Come along, come along, be it fair or stormy weather,
                C                            G                          C                      D
With the hills of home before us and the purple of the heather,
           G                                      C          G       D          G                   
Let us sing in happy chorus, come along, come along.

O gaily sings the lark, and the sky's all awake
With the promise of the day, for the road we gladly take;
So it's heel and toe and forward, bidding farewell to the town,
For the welcome that awaits us e’re the sun goes down.

It's the call of sea and shore, it's the tang of bog and peat,
And the scent of briar and myrtle that puts magic in our feet; 
So it's on we go rejoicing, over bracken, over stile, 
And it's soon we will be tramping out the last long mile.


Uist is part of the Outer Hebrides. With one hundred and ninety freshwater lochs in South Uist, it is a walking and fishing paradise.

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