EILEAN DONAN song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

you take the high road
and I'll take the low
to the castle of Donan
that's where I will go

on the shores of three lochs
Eilean Donan sleeps
the castle her guardian
safe from the deep

the dreams of the past
too awful to take
she's much better off
if she never wakes

In the year six one seven
Saint Donan of Eig
was saying the Mass
when the pirates arrived

he begged them to let him
finish his prayers
then he and his flock
were led down the stairs

and they burned the monks
and the stones too were burned
the starlings were smoke
round the sky they turned

the island stood empty
the rocks cold and kilt
in the 13 hundreds
a fortress was built

and has been the home
to many lost dreams
but still in wind
you can hear what it seems

the Ross and the Norse
the MacKenzies, Macraes
even Robert the Bruce
all stared at the waves

all empires fail
and fall as they must
they watch from the walls
as schemes turn to dust

and now Eileen Donan
Castle stands cold
frozen in history
and old
oh so very very
old

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