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We do not fear the long ships |
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We've seen long ships before |
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Men sailed here from the Northlands |
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And hauled their boats ashore |
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They brought with them their music |
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Their language and their lore |
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And they burned their boats and stayed here on the Islands |
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It's midday in the wintertime |
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Before the moon goes pale |
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The winter songs are very long |
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The storm winds and the gales |
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The midnightsun's as distant |
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As the calling of the whales |
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Till spring returns again to paint the Islands |
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The grey seals and the otter |
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The salmon and the char |
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The land locked and the sea trapped |
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The free birds in the air |
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The shepherd and the farmer |
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And all those in their care |
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Harmonize the music of the Islands |
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We never feared the long ships |
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Till the coming of the Braer |
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The roaring sea in anger threw |
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That broken boat ashore |
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Spilled fuel enough to take that ship |
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Twice round the world or more |
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Filled the air with oil to paint the Islands |
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As if the sea had realized |
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The tragedy in store |
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Its waves continued pounding |
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About a week or more |
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Most of the crude was washed away |
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And never came ashore |
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And the sea regained its temper round the Islands |
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So may this be a warning |
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To those whose faceless greed |
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Would sail close to our shoreline |
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To save both fuel and speed |
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The sea is our protector |
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Provider of our needs |
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And a jealous guard and keeper of these Islands |
