[00:00.00]Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen/A Gordon for Me/These Are My Mountains - Carl Wilson
[00:08.59]The northern lights of old aberdeen
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[00:12.54]Mean home sweet home to me
[00:15.90]
[00:16.74]The northern lights of aberdeen
[00:20.92]Are what I long to be
[00:23.90]
[00:24.91]I've been a wanderer all of my life
[00:29.12]And many a sight I've seen
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[00:33.25]God speed the day
[00:34.95]When I'm on my way
[00:37.26]To my home in aberdeen
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[00:41.50]When I was a lad
[00:43.44]A tiny wee lad
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[00:45.83]My mother said to me
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[00:49.73]Come see the northen lights my boy
[00:53.39]
[00:54.02]They're bright as they can be
[00:56.92]
[00:57.95]She called them the heavenly dancers
[01:02.04]Merry dancers in the night
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[01:06.15]I'll never forget that wonderful sight
[01:09.87]
[01:10.48]They made the heavens bright
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[01:14.45]The northern lights of old aberdeen
[01:18.46]Mean home sweet home to me
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[01:22.54]The northern lights of aberdeen
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[01:26.69]Are what I long to be
[01:30.06]
[01:30.86]I've been a wanderer all of my life
[01:34.95]And many a sight I've seen
[01:38.31]
[01:39.03]God speed the day
[01:40.95]When I'm on my way
[01:43.18]To my home in aberdeen
[01:46.64]
[01:47.69]A gordon for me
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[01:49.41]A gordon for me
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[01:51.43]If you're no a gordon
[01:53.38]You're no use to me
[01:55.48]The black watch are braw
[01:57.48]The seaforths and all
[01:59.59]But the cocky wee gordon's
[02:01.71]The pride of them all
[02:03.80]A gordon for me
[02:05.77]A gordon for me
[02:07.80]If you're no a gordon
[02:09.84]You're no use to me
[02:11.93]The black watch are braw
[02:13.98]The seaforths and all
[02:16.08]But the cocky wee gordon's
[02:18.23]The pride of them all
[02:19.82]
[02:23.51]For these are my mountains
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[02:27.48]And this is my glen
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[02:31.65]The braes of my childhood
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[02:35.73]Will know me again
[02:37.89]
[02:39.86]No land's ever claimed me
[02:43.14]
[02:44.04]Though far I did roam
[02:47.09]
[02:48.09]For these are my mountains
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[02:52.20]And I'm going home
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[02:56.33]For fame and for fortune
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[03:00.43]I wandered the earth
[03:03.16]
[03:04.56]But now I've come back to
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[03:08.57]The land of my birth
[03:11.26]
[03:12.73]I've brought back my treasures
[03:16.09]
[03:16.90]But only to find
[03:20.12]
[03:20.97]They're less than the pleasures
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[03:25.02]I first left behind
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[03:29.25]For these are my mountains
[03:32.48]
[03:33.30]And this is my glen
[03:36.13]
[03:37.46]The braes of my childhood
[03:40.86]
[03:41.62]Will know me again
[03:44.41]
[03:45.61]No land's ever claimed me
[03:49.08]
[03:49.92]Though far I did roam
[03:53.15]
[03:53.91]For these are my mountains
[03:57.41]
[03:57.96]And I'm going home