Capercaillie - Eilean A'Cheo (The Misty Isle) descargar videos gratis

Capercaillie from their first album Cascade (1984). Transfer from vinyl so the quality is not that good.

The line-up then was

Karen Matheson (lead vocal)

Joan MacLachlan (fiddle, vocal)

Marc Duff (Recorder, Whistles, Rauschpfeife)

Shaun Craig (Guitar, Bouzouki)

Martin Macleod (Basses, Fiddle)

Donald Shaw (Accordion, Keyboards, Fiddle)

The Misty Isle (Skye)

Although my head has greyed

With forgetfulness and sadness,

And the sun of my fifty years

Has darkened under the clouds;

My thoughts are filled

With a great desire,

To see the Isle of Skye

The elements and the mist.

It is more than forty years

Since I left you willingly,

And I put down my roots

In the middle of the city;

And although I married a fisherman

Who filled my house with wealth,

You are forever in my mind

And I long to be in your shelter.

But who has ears,

Or a heart which beats with life

Who will not sing this song with me

About the hardship which has befallen us?

The thousands who were cleared

Deprived of their belongings and their rights,

The desires of their hearts and their thoughts

Are on the "Green Isle of the Mist".

Now remember your hardship,

And keep your banner flying;

For the wheel (of change) will not go round for you

Without strength and hardness of fist;

Your cattle will be in their folds,

And every farmer will be happy -

And the English would be ousted

From the "Green Isle of the Mist".