Across The Hills Of Home

F F/E Dm C Bb C F F Bb F You take the low road and I'll take the high F Dm Bb C And back to Scotland my spirit will fly F Bb F To see her one more time before I die F F/E Dm C Bb C F You take the low road and I'll take the high F Bb F Where wide the Murrumbidgee flows, the stately gum and wattle grows F Dm Bb C And deep within the forests tall the laughing kookaburras call F Bb F Across the miles and down the years I dream my eyes too old for tears F Dm Bb C Of other scenes more fair than these, and chase a heather scented breeze Bb F Across the hills of home F Bb F You take the low road and I'll take the high F Dm Bb C And back to Scotland my spirit will fly F Bb F To see her one more time before I die F F/E Dm C Bb C F You take the low road and I'll take the high F F/E Dm C Bb C F F Bb F And when the mists of evening rise to hide the starlight in the skies F Dm Bb C My heart with longing sadness fills to see again those Scottish hills F Bb F Once more as in my boyhood days I roam the bracken-covered braes F Dm Bb C And hear them singing in the glen "Oh, will ye no' come back again Bb F Across the hills of home?" F Bb F You take the low road and I'll take the high F Dm Bb C And back to Scotland my spirit will fly F Bb F To see her one more time before I die F F/E Dm C Bb C F You take the low road and I'll take the high Guitar Solo F Bb F Fast flows the river, faster still the days of youth that never will F Dm Bb C Return - now only dreams remain, of purple hills and fields of grain F Bb F But still I hear across the miles the haunting call of misty isles F Dm Bb C Above the tidal waters roar but I know that I shall go no more Bb F Across the hills of home Chorus x 3 F Bb F You take the low road and I'll take the high F Dm Bb C And back to Scotland my spirit will fly F Bb F To see her one more time before I die F F/E Dm C Bb C F You take the low road and I'll take the high F F/E Dm C Bb C F