(Verse)
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Over salt water and on to the island
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To find a shelter there.
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The age of defenses, cover the watchmen,
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Call another to the tender.
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We¡¯re calling freedom or isolation,
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Hidden from the changing water.
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Making an island, making a heaven
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Hold each other to the water.
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The days when the tide crosses the line, reaches all, face the dark.
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The water will shape us, the title will owe us,
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To gather what we can find.
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Losing the main land, never repeating,
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Leave it floating in the water.
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The days when the tide crosses the line, reaches all, face the dark.
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We tell the children what we remember
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So that they know what they are.
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The children of eagers, the yes of the empire
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And all this conquer down the water.
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The days when the tide crosses the line, reaches all, face the dark,
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Face the dark.
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Aberdour
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Southern Tenant Folk Union |