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When Dreams Come Hame tae Bide

from In Praise of Crows (2021) by Bob Leslie

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Like the honeysuckle and the bindweed, we turn to the left as our neighbours turn to the right. Lots of love’n’kisses and hugs, but we really have to be going. Please feel free to visit, you’ll be welcome – same old place, new house (a bit of a Do It Yourself affair, but that’s what we like).

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There’s a wind blaws in the highest trees
As Ah walk oot ma lane
It sings sae clear, it sings sae fierce
O Liberty an Hame
There’s naught Ah’ve heard
Wi sweeter tune
Tae move ma sowel tae cry
That Ah wid live till past that morn
When dreams come hame tae bide

When dreams come hame tae bide right here
An base deception’s gaun
When we can turn oor ship o State
Tae face toward the dawn
Then let the winds o Freedom roar
We sail upon the tide
An port nae langer seems sae faur
When dreams come hame tae bide

Though aa the slaves o powers great
Deride oor sense an worth
Their witless taunts, their perjur’t claims
We’ll treat as they deserve
An grasp oor future wi baith haunds
Tae pit the past tae flight as
Scotland wakes frae slumber and
Her dreams come hame tae bide

Wi canny thought Ah chose ma way
Ah’ll no turn back again
The rich man’s press, reaction’s crew
Ah fear nae mair than rain
Sae gang wi me oan Freedom Roads
An lift yer heid wi pride
That we aa live on Scotland’s shore
Whaur dreams come hame tae bide

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from In Praise of Crows (2021), released March 15, 2021

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