These Are My Mountains

For fame and for fortune I wandered the earth

And now I've come back to the land of my birth

I've brought back my treasures but only to find

They're less than the pleasures I first left behind

For these are my mountains and this is my glen

The braes of my childhood will know me again

No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

The burn by the road sings at my going by

The whaup averhead wings with welcoming cry

The loch where the scart flies at last I can see

It's here that my heart lies it's here I'll be free

For these are my mountains and this is my glen

The braes of my childhood will know me again

No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

Kind faces will greet me and welcome me in

And how they will greet me my ain kith and kin

The night round the ingle old sangs will be sung

At last I'll be hearing my ain mother tongue

For these are my mountains and this is my glen

The braes of my childhood will know me again

No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

For these are my mountains and I have come home

These Are My Mountains - Carl Wilson