[Òran Ailein: Rory Macdonald & Bruce Guthro]
Teine oidhche geamhradh
'Nar sheasamh air an lar
Sheinn sinn oran Ailein
Seist is rann
'S an treana ruith cho taibhseil
Mar cuimhne tron ghleann
'S iomadh loit nach tig slan

[Leaving Strathconon]
[Verse 1: Bruce Guthro]
We're the emigrant ones
Not the last in the line
You're your father's son
And I am mine
And all of our northwords
Turn distant and small
In the end they mean nothing
No, nothing at all

[Verse 2: Bruce Guthro & Rory Macdonald]
Right here's the river's source
And it flows out to the world
And the heart of Caledonia
Is drowning in its flood
Was there hunger (hunger) in our striving (striving)
Did the light shine in our dark
Was everything we ever needed
Always right here from the start
[Chorus: Rory Macdonald]
Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind

[Verse 3: Bruce Guthro & Rory Macdonald]
We stood on a hundred gangways
That's the way it's always been
I walked out beyond Calvary
With all my kith and kin (With all my kith and kin)
In the war of the worlds (War of the worlds)
We conquer and roam
Lie the wounds that stay bleeding (Stay bleeding)
And raw in the soul

[Chorus: Rory Macdonald]
Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind
Oh, please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind
[Verse 4: Bruce Guthro & Rory Macdonald]
After the raging flame
The embers burn slow
We're leaving, leaving, leaving
'Til there's nowhere left to go (There's nowhere left to go)
The seas, the slums, the battlefields
The shipyards, the tides
The straths, the glens, the drove roads
All the prairies and the mines

[Verse 5: Bruce Guthro & Rory Macdonald]
It's a still autumn morning
And it covers Loch Meig
And all the trees across the valley
In a blaze of dying green
We've seen too many tail-lights
Didn't need to say goodbye (Didn't need to say goodbye)
We're just souls across a shrinking world
In a distant starlit night

[Chorus: Rory Macdonald]
Please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your mountains behind
Oh, please believe me
Something in me died
Leaving Strathconon
And your father's home behind
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[Òran Ailein translation]
By the fire of a winter's night
Standing around the floor
We sang Alan's song
Verse and chorus
And the train ran so ghostly
Like a memory, through the glen
There are many wounds that do not heal