Lost And Gone - Bert Jansch

What a bloody shame: lost and gone, the quietness of the rolling Scray

Having lost my home, no more to fish and swim in the Soolscray

Gone are the hills and the misty valleys;

the pipeline’s coming through

Gone are the streams where the salmon leaps;

the pipeline’s coming through

A city born, spreading over all;

watch it take its hold

Like a barren tree, just a silhouette of black upon gold

Gone are the hills and the misty valleys;

the pipeline’s coming through

Gone are the streams where the salmon leaps;

the pipeline’s coming through

It’s a bloody shame: eight thousand years of nature’s mysterious ways

All torn apart and in her place the starkness of an industrial waste

Gone are the hills and the misty valleys;

the pipeline’s coming through

Gone are the streams where the salmon leaps;

the pipeline’s coming through