Family of the Mountains - Dougie MacLean

Change crashes down

Around my family of the mountains

Newer ways have come

People talk about things they could never know

And as the old ones look around

At what’s been left for them they see

The land they gently touched

It’s tethered now to the rich man’s misery

Let them be, you see they’re running scared

Let them be, now you’ve taken what they shared

Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired

Prosperity has come

But not for my family of the mountains

The quiet and gentle ones

They had no ambition fired by greed

And as the old ones look around

At what’s been left for them they see

The land they gently touched

It’s tethered now to the rich man’s misery

Let them be, you see they’re running scared

Let them be, now you’ve taken what they shared

Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired

Time passes on

And so does my family of the mountains

The older ways have gone

People search for a past that was always there

And as the old ones look around

At what’s been left for them they see

The land they gently touched

It’s tethered now to the rich man’s misery

Let them be, you see they’re running scared

Let them be, now you’ve taken what they shared

Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired