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[Verse]

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A long long time ago, where Scotland meets the water
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They climbed aboard a schooner headed west,
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For safe passage they did pray, with their sons and their daughters,
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To a new world they hoped to be the best.

They rode the waves for weeks
       F
To the mouth of the St. Lawrence,
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And crawled off that boat in Montreal.

[Verse]

Generations lived and died,
            F
Between the river and the border,
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But from the other side there came a deadly call.

                   F
Far to the south, sabers had been rattled,
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It was said that any brave should take a stand,
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Young men loved the fight, the pistol and the saddle,
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So he made his way on down to Dixieland

[Chorus]

   A                                                       Dm
And his mother prayed for him, she prayed for his safe passage,
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She prayed that he came barely back alive,

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[Verse]

Dm                           F
That boy returned old but got his 40 acres,
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And they cleared the hemlock from that low hillside,
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He built my father's house, and a barn when he was able,
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Still standing tall to prove he was alive.

                          F
Our daddy told us young, he would he the last one,
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To raise a livin from that Rocky land,

                                  F
So I cross these many miles, I'm back again too often,
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My journey with my guitar in my hand,

[Chorus]

     A                                                Dm
And my mother prays for me, she prays for my safe passage,
   A                                 Dm
She prays that I will make it back alive