Family on the Mountain Songtext

von Dougie MacLean

Change crashes down around my family of the mountains
Newer ways have come

People talk about things they could never know

And as the old ones look around

At what's been left for them they see

The land they gently touched

It's tethered now to the rich's man misery

CHORUS
Let them be
You see they're running scared
Let them be

Now you've taken what they shared

Their lives have been broken enough and cannot be repaired

Prosperity has come but not for my family of the mountains
The quiet and gentle ones

They had no ambition fired by greed

And as the old ones etc.

CHORUS

Time passes on and so does my family of the mountains

The older ways have gone

People search for a past that was always there

And as the old ones etc.