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The Long Grey Line (Alan Hunter)
Debra Cowan

You were born to decent city folk

In a hoose wi’ a country name

And you walked the streets your faither walked

Ta grow up just the same

And ye worked in school and ye kept the rule


And ye cried the tinker doon

‘Cause he’d spend his time on the Long Grey Line

Wouldna be tied to toon

Spend his time on the Long Grey Line

Wouldna be tied to toon


So ye worked hard in a college room

Career was aye in mind

But ye never got doon tae travelling roon

Ye said there’s always time

And ye never gave one moment’s thought

Tae what it means to be free

Or the tinker’s time on the long grey line

And the sights that a tinker sees

Or the tinker’s time on the long grey line

And the sights that a tinker sees


Then ye bought a wee hoose and ye settled doon

A wife and a brace o’ weans

And ye watched the things that ye gathered roon

Begin tae look like chains

Ye began tae doubt but ye stuck it out

Working nine tae five

While the tinker’s fine on the long grey line

Aye keepin’ his dreams alive


The tinker’s fine on the long grey line

Aye keepin’ his dreams alive


Now ye’re looking back on all ye’ve done

Seventy years of age

On summers come and winters gone



When the hoose became a cage

Though the comforts count for something now

Ye pretend ye dinnae care

That ye found nae time for the long grey line

With yer hairt cryin’ oot for mair

That ye found nae time for the long grey line

With yer hairt cryin’ oot for mair


Well, there’s mair to life than they teach in the school

Mair tae see and hear

And mair tae man than o’ patch o’ land

In the finnish o’ his years

But the saddest sight is the fading light

Of a man who’s chance is gone

So I’ll gie some time tae the long grey line

And I’ll ken when I’m bound for home

Gie some time tae the long grey line

And I’ll ken when I’m bound for home

Gie some time tae the long grey line

And I’ll ken when I’m bound for home


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