Scarborough Settlers Lament

scarborough settler’s lament words : sandy glendenning , C . 1870 . tune : william marshall , C . 1781 C F C F away wi’ canada’s muddy creeks C Dm7 G7 and canada’s fields of pine! C F C F your land of wheat is a goodly land , C D7 G7 but ah! it isna mine! C F C Am the heathy hill , the grassy dale F G the daisy - spangled lea , C F C F the purling burn and craggy linn , C G7 C auld scotia’s glens gie me . oh , i wad like to hear again the lark on tinny’s hill . and see the wee bit gowany that blooms beside the rill . like banished swiss who views afar his alps with longing e’e . i gaze upon the morning star that shines on my countie . nae mair i’ll win by eskdale pen or pentland’s craggy cone; the days can ne’er come back again of thirty years that’s gone , but fancy oft at midnight hour will steal across the sea . yestreen , in a pleasant dream i saw the auld country . each well - known scene that met my view brought childhood’s joys to mind , the blackbird sang on tushey linn the song he sang , ’lang syne . ’ but like a dream time flies away , again the morning came . and i awoke in canada , three thousand miles frae hame