Forever Yesterday Lyrics - Caught In The Light - Barclay James Harvest

Talk about a loser, I was just about to go 

When someone grabbed me by the arm, a man I did not know 

He said he'd been a drover, a member of the clan 

With run rig in his very soul and nowhere left to stand 

Now me I'm just a highland boy and cottar was my trade 

He'd seen me at Kildoanan when the black-face came to stay 

He'd oatcakes and he'd whiskey and one foot in the grave 

For us it's over 

Bitter tears began to fall 

As whiskey tore away the years 

From the straths and the braes 

Forever yesterday 

The royal George it was that brought the Countess to our door 

She wanted us to leave the hills for crofts upon the moor 

She took our piece of paradise and left us on the shore 

For us it's over 

Bitter tears began to fall 

As whiskey tore away the years 

From the straths and the braes 

Forever yesterday 

They cleared the clans from Strathnavar, the heart of Sutherland 

They cleared us from our highland homes by ship to foreign glens 

There's Linton and there's Cheviot and red deer on the Ben's 

For us it's over, over, over, my friend