Ken McLellan - With a Honest Hand

Do you work in the fields my friends, or down in the dark of the pit?
Each of you will toild to the end, to make this greay country fit.
For your children to flourish in a free land, for you children to play in the sun,
a land built by our own fair hand, and I know you will toil 'til it's done

With your might shoulders, you till the land,
Those same shoulders they break the stone.
A future you carvw with your honest hand,
For your children to proudly call home

Do you work on the docks my man, or do you toil at the mill,
you rise every morning to provide for you clan, for the love and the pride they instill.
Your back breaks with the wieght of the plough, your fair skins burns black in the sun,
your smile never diims, theres bever a scow, and I know you'll toil 'til it's done.

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Wherever you labour wherever you toil, wherever you graft or you sweat,
For the love of your nation, to which you are blessed, zou know it's as good as it gets,
The pride in you hear is there for all to see, the pride in the man you've become
A tenacious defender of the land of the free, and I know you will toil 'til it's done

Ken McLellan - It's a Long Road

It's a long road it's a hard road, a road that seems to have no end,
but I'm so pleased yeah it's much easier to travel along with you my friend.
Yes it's a long way but the right way, yeah we gotta keep on track,
yes it's a long way but the right way, just like he said, no turning back

You gotta keep on, gotta keep on,
travelling along this road.
Gotta keep on, we sing the same song,
although they are paved with pain not gold.

100 nighways, and he who dies prays, for salvation of our kin,
many crossroads and many lost roads, dead ends don't mean we can't win.
Just keep on running and keep on gunning, gotta aim for the top,
yeah keep on running and keep on gunning, make sure the wheel never stops.

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Priade and honour a new tomorrow, sacrifice all for this fight,
truth and valour bring down the hammer, oh on this endless night
Look at the green fields, look at the blue skies, don't stop to wonder why,
Look at the green fields look at the blues skeis, what a wonderful way to die.

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Ken McLellan - Do I Deserve This

Let me in sit me down
hear me out about what I've found
Searched so long searched so hard
Though I was home I dropped my guard

No I can't believe what you're doing to me,
Do I deserve this?
No I can't believe what you're doing to me,
Do I deserve this?

I could dream, I could see
Through the mist how it should be
Took my chance, stood my ground
Ripped out my heart, you turned me round
Alt I ever didm oh I did for you
And now you turn your backs, guess it's divide and rule

Stop this pain, this driving rain
Playing games, making me insane
Fight for you, that's all I do
Do I have the heart to see this through
All I ever did oh I did for you
And now you turn your backs, guess it's divide and rule

Ken McLellan - If I Ever Forget

It's that feeling again, the once called quilt
Been thinking about the past and all the blood spilt
The faces of the fallen, the countless lost souls
The forgotten aims, the forgotten goals

Sometimes I feel myself drifting away
Asking myself: "is it worth all of this pain"
But the answers always yes; "we got to push one"
And it all comes to me in the words of this song

If I ever forget, remind me!
yeah tell me again, make me realise
If I ever regret, you blind me
With  the tears from your eyes

Well I don't know anything else, this has been my life
Been through so much heartache and so much strile
And every time it's alwys the same in my  eyes
Cos we are lighting each other, a little more of me dies

Ken McLellan - I am the warrior

My father said to me upon his death bed
That the future of your children is in your hands
You must stand against the oppression with all your might
And bring a famous victory, for all that's right

Upon the mountain I do stand
Looking down onto the glen
My mighty sword is in my hand
I am the warrior
Ten days I've fought, and ten days more
I must wield this mighty sword
My faith will never let me fall
I am the warrior

Look into your sons eyes, can you see his pain
I saw this in your eyes, it made me stand gain
Now thatold age has finally caught uo with me
It's for you my son go now and set them free

Ken McLellan - Over The Hills

Here's forty shillings on the drum
For those who  volunteer to come
To enlist and fight the foe today
Over the hills and far away

Over the hills nd over the main
Through the Flanders, Portugal and Spain
King George commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away
When duty calls me I must go
To stand and face another foe
But part of me will always stay
Over the hills and far away

If I should fall to rise no more
Like many comrades did before
Then ask the fifes and drums to play
Over the hills and far away

Then fall in lads behin the durn
With colours blazing like the sun
Along the road to come what may
Over the hills and far away

Ken McLellan - Fallen Flowers

There on a misty morning as the sun slowlly rise,
After the battle at Halidon Hill
There lies her youngest son, with tears in his eyes,
Wounded and dying she hears him still

Ma if I could live my life again
If I could call the world my friend
If I could write the stories end, I woud!
I would give all these things in vain
To feel you hold me once again

A smile comes to his fce and uneasy clm
In front of him, his life flashes by
Amidst his boyis charms
He feels his mother's arms
In that painless moment he hears her cry

Son if I could roll back the years
If I could see through thsese tears
If I could face all of my fears, I would!
I would give all these things in vain
Just to hold you once again

Remember me forever, I'll be here forever
Please forget me never, I'll forget you never


If I could roll back the years
If I could see through the tears
If I could face all me fears and
If I could live my life again
If I could call the world my friend
If I could write the stories end, I would!
Id live a thousands years of pain
Just to hold you once again

Ken McLellan - A sense of belonging

Though fortune takes me and a wandere makes me,
To countries so far and tradition so strange
Here in my heart there  only ever be one land
There's nothing about you that id ever change

Scotland, you'll always be with me
Well never say goobye
I'll always be yours, you'll walways be mine
Until the day that I die
The majesty of your sleep mountins instils
A sens of belonging though I'm far away
The green luscious valleys, the high heather hills
What you've given to me I could never repay

If fate decrees that I won't be returning
You'll bare the root of my family free
There will still be a flicker of my life light burning
And in your sfe keeping forever I'll be

Ken McLellan - Why should this be?

Walking rounds in circies, kicking my heels, kicking stones
Hands deep in y pocket keeping myself from the cold
Turning around another corner, not seeing w e

How has this happened why should this?
Has the world gone mad or is it just me?
Where is my momery where has gone my life?
And the realisation cuts like a knife

Catch a reflection in the window that I don't recognise
As I look a little harder, a little more of me dies
Where has gone the proud man, the fight, the clown
The iron hand if depresion drags me further down

These hands were once employed this body once of use
Now cast aside a castigted a figute of abuse
Thoses years I have 'em everything count for nothing at all
I'm dying a lonely man who used to stand ten feet tan 

Ken McLellan - All I Can Do

Now this life that I live has took me everywhere
Yeah, there ain't no place I ain't never gone
But it's kind of like the saying you've heard so many times
There just ain't no place like home

How I know I can't make any changes
All I can do is write em in a song
And if you take the time to share them with
Then brother I know me and you will get along

I have wake through the proud city streets of Budapest
Drank wine in the Vineyards of Northern Italy
Shared a beer with my comrades up in Finland
Yeah that's a thing that really matters to me
Now I ain't saying my home is better than any place
But after the storm of playing I need some calm
And I know when my plane touches down in London
It won't be long it I'm back in my baby's arms

Ken McLellan - Eagle

Eagle you fly across the horizon
Into the misty morning sun
Nobody asks you where you are going
And nobody knows where you are from

Here is a man asking the questions
Is this realty then end of the world?
Eagle you must have known for a long time
The shape if things to come

Now you fly though the sky
never asking why
And you fly all around
Til somebody shoots you down

Eagle you fly across the horizon
Into the misty morning sun
Nobody asks you where you are going
And nobody knows where you are from

Ken McLellan - Fallen Flowers

There on a misty morning as the sun slowly nse
After the battle at Halidon Hill
There lies her youngest son, with tears on his eyes
Wounded and dying she hears him still

Ma if I could live my ife again
If I could call the world my friend
If I could write the stories end I would!
I would give all these thing in vain
To feel you hold ne once gain

A smile comes to his face and uneasy calm
In front of him, his life flashes by
Amidst his boyish charms
he feels his mother's arms
In that painless moment he hears her cry

Son if I could roll back the years
If I could see through these tears
If I could face all of my fears I would!
I would give all these things in vain
Just to hold you once again

Remember me forever I'll be here forever
Please forget me never I'll forget you never

Son if I could roll back the years
If I could see through these tears
If I could face all my fears and
If I could live my life again
If I could call the world my friend
If I write the stories end I would!
Id live a thousands years of pain
Just to hold you once again

Ken McLellan - Get yourself tattooed

Get it into my skin
and into my soul
I was born to
Rock'n'roll
Fine lines that look
so sharp,
break my skin and
break my heart.

Chorus:
hey Andy what you
gonna do?
Paint my skin red,
white and blue.
Come on boy get
Yourself tattooed.
Yeah Andy.

Come on boy get
Yourself tattooed.
Hear the buzz of
hat electric gun,
me against the pain
and this time I won.
I woner each time!
Came through
your door,
is today the day!
land on your floor

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Demons and dragons
all over the place.
Demons and dragons.
Fighting for space.
Filled my chest my
Arms and most
of my back
Where next for your
Gun to attack.

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So get it into my skin
and into my soul
I was born to
Rock'n'roll
Fine lines that look
so sharp,
break my skin and
break my heart.

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