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Ghosts Of Caledonia

from Settler by Malcolm MacWatt

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All you ghosts of Caledonia I see you everywhere
In towns and flags and places whose namesakes you share
Embedded into legend and written into song
And by the way, in Elgin Illinois you’re saying it all wrong

All you ghosts of Caledonia rattling your bones
In graveyards around the world the famous and unknown
You haunt the trails and battlefields where you lay down and died
And in the deep I hope you sleep beneath an ocean sky

All you ghosts of Caledonia those whom I won’t speak their names
I hope they feel the weight of all those souls they kept in chains
They built their little empires on the broken backs of slaves
Will those they owned forgive their sorry souls on judgement day

CH: The deeds you did for good or ill echo down the ages still
Time forever judges what we do
We’ll be ghosts of Caledonia too

All you ghosts of Caledonia those who history has erased
Perhaps you spoke sedition or did not know your place
You stood against oppression or spoke the rights of man
Even if I do not know your name I’d like to shake your hand

All you ghosts of Caledonia before Columba came
To put you pagan picts and celts and witches to the flame
If your spirit wanders like a heathen without faith
There’s plenty here who still believe the old gods knew the way

All you ghosts of Caledonia no matter where you roam
If you died with Alba in your heart you’re more than halfway home
Don’t settle for eternity behind those pearly gates
Cos it looks like we might really need your help again today

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from Settler, released November 25, 2021

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota
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