Westering Home

X: 1
T: Westering Home
C: Hugh S. Roberton (1920s)
N: Oficial slow march of the UK's Royal Navy
N: a variant of "The Muckin o Geordie's Byre"
R: waltz, jig-time march
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
S: thisoldtractor.com, terrytraub.org, Nigel Gatherer (merged)
B: Joe Buchanan's Scottish Tome
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
F/E/ \
| "G"D>ED DB,D | GGA "G7"B3 | "C"c>BA "G"BAG | "Am"EE>D "D7"D3 |\
| "G"D>ED DB,D | GGA B3 | "(C)"d>BG "D7"B2A | "C"G3- "G"G2z |]
[| "G"d>BG "Em"GAB | "Am"A>BA "D7"D3 | "G"DGG "Em"GAB | "Am"c>Bc "D7"A3 |\
|  "G"d>BG "Em"GAB | "Am"A>BA "D7"D2c | "G"BBG "D7"B2A | "C"G3- "G"G2 |]
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%S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westering_Home
%W: Chorus:
%W:   Westering home, and a song in the air,
%W:   Light in the eye and it's goodbye to care.
%W:   Laughter o' love, and a welcoming there,
%W:   Isle of my heart, my own one.
%W: Verse 1:
%W:   Tell me o' lands o' the Orient gay,
%W:   Speak o' the riches and joys o' Cathay;
%W:   Eh, but it's grand to be wakin' ilk day
%W:   To find yourself nearer to Islay.
%W: Verse 2
%W:   Where are the folk like the folk o' the west?
%W:   Canty and couthy and kindly, the best.
%W:   There I would hie me and there I would rest
%W:   At hame wi' my ain folk in Islay.
%W: Verse 3
%W:   Now I'm at home and at home I do lay
%W:   Dreaming of riches that come from Cathay
%W:   I'll hop a good ship and be on my way
%W:   And bring back my fortune to Islay

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/waltz/Westering_Home-G-32-4/0000

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