Alternative
Amplifier (2024 Remaster)
by The dB's
Release Date:
1982-01-01
Lyrics
Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
Lang hae we sought baith holt and dean;
By burn, by ford, by greenwood tree
Yet you are halesome and fair to see
Kilmeny look'd up wi' lovely grace
But nae was a smile seen on Kilmeny's face;
As still was her look, and as still was her e'e
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea
Kilmeny
Yet you are halesome and fair
Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew
Where thе rain never fell, and thе wind never blew
It seemed as the harp of the sky had rung
The airs of heaven played round her tongue
She spoke of the lovely forms she had seen
And a land where sin had never been;
A land of love and a land of light
Withouten sun, nor moon, nor night
The river swa'd a living stream,
The light of a pure and cloudless beam;
A land of vision, it would seem,
A still, an everlasting dream.
Kilmeny
Yet you are halesome and fair to see
Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
To a land of no mortal has ever seen
Kilmeny, Kilmeny, where have you been?
Lang hae we sought baith holt and dean;
By burn, by ford, by greenwood tree
Yet you are halesome and fair to see
Kilmeny look'd up wi' lovely grace
But nae was a smile seen on Kilmeny's face;
As still was her look, and as still was her e'e
As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea
Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea
