Andy Stewart - A Scottish Soldier (Key: OR Ebmaj)

Title: A Scottish Soldier
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: Andy Stewart
Genre: Folk; World Music
Language: English
Era: 1960s
Key: OR Ebmaj
Backing vocals: No
More info: "A Scottish Soldier" is a song written by Andy Stewart using the melody of "The Green Hills of Tyrol".
Lyrics: Yes
 
There was a soldier
A Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
There was none bolder
With good broad shoulder
He'd fought in many a fray
And fought and won
 
He'd seen the glory
He'd told the story
Of battles glorious
And deeds victorious
But now he's sighing
His heart is crying
To leave those green hills of Tyrol
 
Because those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills
They're not my land's hills
And, fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home
 
And now this soldier
This Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling
And death is calling
And he will fade away in that far land
 
He called his piper
His trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay
A pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside
A Scottish hillside
Not on those green hills of Tyrol
 
Because those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills
They're not my land's hills
And, fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home
 
BAGPIPE INTERLUDE
 
And now this soldier
this Scottish soldier
Will wander far no more
And soldier far no more
And on a hillside
A Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play his soldier home
 
He's seen the glory
He's told his story
Of battles glorious
And deeds victorious
The bugles cease now
He is at peace now
Far from those green hills of Tyrol
 
Because those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills
They're not my land's hills
And, fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home
 
For no those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills
They're not my land's hills
And, fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home
 
(Those green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills
They're not my land's hills)
And, fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not my hills of home
 
Composer: TRADITIONAL/ANDY STEWART