Dick Gaughan - As I Walked on the Road

A song from Different Kind of Love Song album.
Presumably describing Cuban crisis ? :)

[@radharcanna]

What a singer and guitarist and what a song! Dick Gaughan should be declared a national treasure of Scotland.

[@stefani.theflameofthewest2252]

You can freue Scotland how. Where we go one, we vom all.

[@jordanmac7973]

Great track, beautiful guitar, god bless you all

[@MerchantEyes]

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

[@TheOnlyLightISee]

This is beautiful, Many thanks for uploading it!

[@allan123]

great song ,one of his best ..thanks for uploading...allan

[@johnward1578]

As described in the song Glen Douglas leads through the hills between Loch Lomond and Loch Long. In the early 1960s this tranquil area (now on the edge of a National Park) was tunnelled and concreted to become a major NATO store for conventional and nuclear weapons. It lies less than 40 miles from the city of Glasgow.

[@johnrobinson3905]

The tune Dick plays before the song is called 'The Iron Man'.

[@Bathulie88]

didn't even know that was happening :O thx

[@ykan1]

Actually it's a comment on the placement of US nuclear missiles in Scotland.

[@chancewatkins5071]

Good song, thanks for sharing; Jesus Christ Bless you! :)

[@melindalemmon2149]

Joseph Watkins, I would appreciate your fervent prayers for the genious, Dick Gaughan. He can't be with us much longer I'm afraid, and he is of course a atheistic communist. I wish so heartily he would come to know Jesus. Let's pray together for him. I can't help but love him dearly. He has had a hard hard life, like so many hard-headed geniouses. Like so many rebels.

[@Bathulie88]

@bigalli100 thank you for listenig it :)