Scythe Song - Dougie MacLean

I still remember when

I first watched him work the blade

It was down in the Buckney den

My questions tumbled and he said

Oh this is not a thing to learn inside a day

Stand closely by me and I’ll try to show the way

You’ve got to hold it right

Feel the distance to the ground

Move with a touch so light

Until it’s rhythm you have found

Then you’ll know what I know

Oh wild are the ways we run

When at last untethered out we fly

Straight into the burning sun

Need no direction, no, not I

But it is not a thing to learn inside a day

Stand closely by me and I’ll try to show the way

You’ve got to hold it right

Feel the distance to the ground

Move with a touch so light

Until it’s rhythm you have found

Then you’ll know what I know

So, little dancing girl

You want to play a tune

One that your heart can fill

To help you shine under the moon

Well, it is not a thing to learn inside a day

Stand closely by me and I’ll try to show the way

You’ve got to hold it right

Feel the distance to the ground

Move with a touch so light

Until it’s rhythm you have found

Then you’ll know what I know

Then you’ll know what I know