(Banks/Hackett/Rutherford)
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The sun had been up for a couple of hours,
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Covered the ground with a layer of gold.
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Spirits were high and the raining had stopped,
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The larder was low, But boy that wasn't all.
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Eleventh Earl of Mar
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Couldn't get them very far.
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Daddy! Oh Daddy, You Promised.
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Out on the road in the direction of Perth,
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Backwards and forwards in a circle they went.
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Found a city half open and ready to greet,
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The conquering heroes, with blisters on their feet.
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Eleventh Earl of Mar
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Somehow got them all this far.
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Daddy! You Promised, You Promised.
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See the Stewart all dressed up
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He's got eyes in the back of his head.
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Who came in a cockleshell boat
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That could only just float,
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Couldn't even lift a sword.
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Dressed too fine and smelling of wine.
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Daddy you've got to go!
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Here comes the bishop all dressed up
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He's gonna bless you if you're ready to pay.
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One wave of his funny old stick,
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There's a band of light across your eyes.
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Waited a week still they hadn't appeared,
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That glorious timing that everyone feared.
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So they're riding along on the crest of a wave,
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They're headed for London, And that will be their grave.
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Eleventh Earl of Mar
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Well he couldn't get them down that far
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Daddy! I'm waiting, I'm waiting
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Time to go to bed now
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Never seems too keen
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To be a guest now
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In a house of dreams
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Flying from a hillside
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Beckoning the trees
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A sailboat's awning
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Mimicking the breeze
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I'm fighting gravity falling
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My Daddy won't let them get me
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A voice screams seems to be calling
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The face turns features are burning.
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Daddy, you've got to go!
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See the fifteen going by,
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Tell the Lairds and the Lords
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They're running backwards today,
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And once again you stand alone.
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Bury your memories bury your friends,
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Leave it alone for a year or two.
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Till the stories go hazy and the legends come true,
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Then do it again. Some Things never end.
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Eleventh Earl of Mar
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Won't be going very far.
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You Promised, You Promised, You Promised.
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DADDY!
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Eleventh Earl Of Mar
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| Genesis |
