The Clearances Again [Official Video]

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    Lyrics
    The Clearances Again - Angus MacPhail
    Farewell to the cliffs of Mingulay
    And the shores of the Sandray Sound
    And the glow of a boat well laden
    Steaming north when you’re homeward bound.
    Donald Francis MacNeil is my name,
    I’m a fisherman through to the bone.
    I have lived by the creel and the wave
    To provide for a family and home.
    Generations before me have followed
    The toil and the call of the seas
    But the soul will be torn from our future
    And the heart from the Hebrides.
    I have hauled through the stacks and the arches
    And learned from the old in my youth.
    Ten thousand seabirds my chorus
    The sea is my way and my truth.
    At one with the ocean, with nature,
    The world above and below,
    The harvest of harmony’s circle
    But my life and my living must go
    For the fashions of urban ideals
    Where passions of ignorance play
    To the lies of political deals -
    No care for the lives in their way.
    My people, my language, my Island
    And the rights that our forefathers won
    To remain on the soil of our homeland
    By the sweep of a pen will be gone -
    A wrecking ball through our existence;
    Tradition and culture condemned
    At the hands of the arrogant stranger -
    The Clearances over again.
    But we’ll join with the kin of our coastline
    From Ness to the Holy Isle.
    Faceless grey suits from the cities,
    They will not play games with our lives.
    My song marks a fight for survival
    A Mayday call we cry.
    We will stand for the rights of our children.
    We will not let our islands die.
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ความคิดเห็น • 25

  • @sophiabreidfischer6242
    @sophiabreidfischer6242 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What a beautiful song. I hv Scottish ancestry and feel this, and it also rings true for ppl who work the land everywhefe🤍

  • @blackie_tup
    @blackie_tup 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    there's never been a song with such meaning in a generation.

  • @bobwheeler5246
    @bobwheeler5246 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Well done Skippinish, great message and song

  • @johnlaurie4104
    @johnlaurie4104 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love Scotland! I am coming back!

  • @jamiehu33
    @jamiehu33 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just discovered Skippinish, the story of this song and thankfully, the news about last year’s decision by the Authorities to cancel enforcement of the prohibition of fishing from these waters. 😅. Good for you Scotland!!!

  • @lindapadley5806
    @lindapadley5806 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved this by Skippinsh! It's a song to get people thinking about islands getting isolated from mainland

  • @Lemonstreetmusic
    @Lemonstreetmusic 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Powerful lyrics set to a good melody - the hallmark of a great song. Well done

  • @ianlivingston5619
    @ianlivingston5619 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Love this song and the Gaelic version. Obviously got the message to the puppets in Hollyrood.

    • @rosemarycuthbert4623
      @rosemarycuthbert4623 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So you would rather be ruled by Westminster Toraidhs

    • @bigpistol2
      @bigpistol2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Arriving 2 days after 1st April and the "anti-banter" law that now makes me nervous to be myself when in a pub drinking....what were we talking about? Something about "puppets" in Holyrood?

  • @ikanditoby
    @ikanditoby 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an amazing song.

  • @weemodundee4596
    @weemodundee4596 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shared well ❤❤❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏

  • @mcgregorpiper
    @mcgregorpiper 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Great song and I can’t help but think that it galvanised opposition to the SNP utterly idiotic scheme to limit fishing in the waters of the Hebrides.

    • @alexthorburn2878
      @alexthorburn2878 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      As an ex-trawlerman it brought a tear to my and anger to my heart to see what a "Scottish Government" intends. I did not join the fight for independence in 1967 to have our rural and island communities treated in such a manner.

    • @alanrmacdonald622
      @alanrmacdonald622 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Break with the Greens. They devised the HP Marine Areas.

    • @rosemarycuthbert4623
      @rosemarycuthbert4623 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Let's vote for London rule instead

  • @user-lk1cv9pf8t
    @user-lk1cv9pf8t 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I nGaidhlig a seo níos fearr.

  • @rosemarycuthbert4623
    @rosemarycuthbert4623 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am sure that liebour and toraidhs will be keen to represent your tights

  • @gerhardthoffmann
    @gerhardthoffmann 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like to have a Visitation to Your Country, but time will bring it or not

  • @rosemarycuthbert4623
    @rosemarycuthbert4623 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Och well the toraidhs supported you in Holyrood. Devolution is dead. Aye vote toraidh lib dem and to hell with the mainland folk fighting for independence. Saor Alba

  • @rosemarycuthbert4623
    @rosemarycuthbert4623 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The alternative to the so called puppets in Holyrood is Toraidh rule from Westminster

  • @johnscott8390
    @johnscott8390 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an awesome song, where the ties to a special place that is more than what they call home