These Are My Mountains

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

For fame and for fortune I wandered the earth

But now I've return 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 days of my childhood I'll see them again

No land ever claimed me though far did I roam

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

The stream by the road sings at my going by

The lark overhead wing a welcoming cry

The lake where the trout lies once more I will see

For it's there that my heart lies it's there I must be

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in

And oh how they'll greet me back home again

This night around the fireside old songs will be sung

At last I'll be hearing my own mother's tongue

For these are my mountains and this is my glen

The days of my childhood I'll see them again

No land ever claimed me though far did I roam

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

For these are my mountains and I'm going home

These Are My Mountains - Brian Coll