Full Lyrics
Coronach (for the dead of the 5/7th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders)
Waement the deid
I never did,
Ower gled I was ane o the lave
That someway baid alive
Tae trauchle my thowless hert
Wi ithers' hurt.
But nou that I'm far
Frae the fechtin's fear,
Nou I hae won awa frae aa thon pain
Back til my beuks and my pen,
They croud around me oot o the grave
Whar luve and langerie and blyness grieve.
Cryan the cauld words:
'We hae dree'd oor weirds,
But you that byde ahin,
Ayont oor ugsome hyne,
You are the flesh we aince hae been,
We that are bruckle brokken bane.'
Cryan a drumlie speak:
'You hae the words we spak,
You hae the sang
We canna sing,
Sen daith maun skail
The makar's skill.
'Makar, frae nou ye maun
Be singan for us deid men,
Sing til the warld we loo'd
For aa that its brichtness lee'd,
And tell hou the sudden nicht
Cam doun and made us nocht.'
Waement the deid
I never did,
But nou I am safe awa
I hear their wae
Greetan, greetan dark an daw
Till I their biddin dae.
