Dick Gaughan - As I Walked Down the Road (Live 1983 - Festival d. pol. Liedes, Volksbühne Berlin)

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Dick Gaughan singt beim 13. Festival des Politischen Liedes, Berlin Februar 1983. Das Antikriegs-Lied "As I Walked Down the Road", hier in einer deutlich kämpferischen Folk-Version, als auf dem (leider) glatt gebügeltem Studio-Album "A Different Kind of Love Song" von 1983.
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Text:
As I walked by Loch Lomond side
On a fine spring morning
The sun fought with the icy rain
That came on without warning
And all the wee birds sang again
As the mountains shed their winter snow
A finer sight I'd never seen
That day upon the road
By Glen Douglas then I travelled west
Across the hills to reach Loch Long
It put my mettle to the test
And in my heart a joyful song
From Scotland and her beauty wild
So many years I'd been away
I felt the wonder of a child
That day upon the road
But before my eyes the scene it changed
Man-made structures flanked the hills
Caverns grim of concrete gray
In rows so menacing and still
I wondered what these things could be
No reason for them, could I find
A change of mood came over me
That day upon the road
Text & Musik: Dick Gaughan

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Dick Gaughan + Wacholder: Your Daughters And Your Sons (Live 1985 - Volksbühne Berlin) ua-cam.com/video/u8Q5SKY1ZIc/v-deo.html
Zupfgeigenhansel - Nicht nur nebenbei (Live 1985 - Festival d. pol. Liedes, Volksbühne Berlin) ua-cam.com/video/QD9S_BJ7Stc/v-deo.html
Hannes Wader - Es ist an der Zeit (Live 1982 - Festival des politischen Liedes, Berlin - 5/7) ua-cam.com/video/mUtNFnyZJ10/v-deo.html
Wacholder: Wenn ich einmal der Herrgott wär (Live 1984 - Festival d. pol. Liedes, Berlin) ua-cam.com/video/c34HVRkdXO0/v-deo.html

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Traurig, dass das Thema nach so vielen Jahren wieder so aktuell ist

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Text:
As I walked by Loch Lomond side
On a fine spring morning
The sun fought with the icy rain
That came on without warning
And all the wee birds sang again
As the mountains shed their winter snow
A finer sight I'd never seen
That day upon the road
By Glen Douglas then I travelled west
Across the hills to reach Loch Long
It put my mettle to the test
And in my heart a joyful song
From Scotland and her beauty wild
So many years I'd been away
I felt the wonder of a child
That day upon the road
But before my eyes the scene it changed
Man-made structures flanked the hills
Caverns grim of concrete gray
In rows so menacing and still
I wondered what these things could be
No reason for them, could I find
A change of mood came over me
That day upon the road
A shepherd working in the glen
Told me what had happened there
To make the work of many men
The storehouse of tomorrow's fear
For in these mighty caverns grim
Avenging swords in rows did stand
To unleash war some dreadful day
With pain and death in every land
I felt so sad just standing there
In a place I'd once loved well
Now used without permission asked
To house the very teeth of hell
But all those folk who strive for peace
My heart went out to all of them
Their struggle's on, it musn't cease -
I tell you now, as I told myself that day upon the road
Text & Musik: Dick Gaughan

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I sadly worked at Glen Douglas as an aprentence as a wee boy. Most of us Glasgow folk did not know it was there. Il never forget the sad site of bunkers for bombs all over the glen. So so sad.