Biography:
The Alexander Brothers was an easy-listening folk-music duo from Scotland who begsn performing in the 1950s.
Tom Alexander (1934– 10 January 2020) and Jack Alexander (1935–2 November 2013) were born in Cambusnethan, near Wishaw. On leaving school in the early fifties, the brothers pursued a trade as painters and decorators by day, and entertainers by night, and spent most of their spare time performing for elderly people in hospitals and for various charitable institutions in and around their hometown.
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These Are My Mountains
Alexander Brothers
[Verse]
G C G
For fame and for fortune I wandered the earth
C G D
And now I've come back to the land of my birth
G G7 C
I've brought back my treasures but only to find
G D G
They're less than the pleasures I first left behind
[Chorus]
G C G
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
C G D
The braes of my childhood will know me again
G G7 C
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam
G D G
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
[Verse]
G C G
The burn by the road sings at my going by
C G D
The whaup averhead wings with welcoming cry
G G7 C
The loch where the scart flies at last I can see
G D G
It's here that my heart lies it's here I'll be free
[Chorus]
G C G
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
C G D
The braes of my childhood will know me again
G G7 C
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam
G D G
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
[Verse]
G C G
Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in
C G D
And how they will greet me my ain kith and kin
G G7 C
The night round the ingle old sangs will be sung
G D G
At last I'll be hearing my ain mother tongue.
[Chorus]
G C G
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
C G D
The braes of my childhood will know me again
G G7 C
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam
G D G
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
Alexander Brothers
[Verse]
G C G
For fame and for fortune I wandered the earth
C G D
And now I've come back to the land of my birth
G G7 C
I've brought back my treasures but only to find
G D G
They're less than the pleasures I first left behind
[Chorus]
G C G
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
C G D
The braes of my childhood will know me again
G G7 C
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam
G D G
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
[Verse]
G C G
The burn by the road sings at my going by
C G D
The whaup averhead wings with welcoming cry
G G7 C
The loch where the scart flies at last I can see
G D G
It's here that my heart lies it's here I'll be free
[Chorus]
G C G
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
C G D
The braes of my childhood will know me again
G G7 C
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam
G D G
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
[Verse]
G C G
Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in
C G D
And how they will greet me my ain kith and kin
G G7 C
The night round the ingle old sangs will be sung
G D G
At last I'll be hearing my ain mother tongue.
[Chorus]
G C G
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
C G D
The braes of my childhood will know me again
G G7 C
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam
G D G
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
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