Biography:
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.
Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….
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Other songs:
- Answer Me
- Anytime Youre Down And Out
- Boulder To Birmingham
- Cant Get By Without You
- Caravan Song
- Dainty Davie
- Day And Night
- Do Right Woman
- Dont Say Money Doesnt Matter
- Early Morning Rain
- Easy Terms
- False Lover Won Back
- Fine Flowers In The Valley
- Follow You Follow Me
- Geordie
- Highland Harry
- In The Night
- Jamie Raeburn
- January February
- Jock Of Hazeldean
- Johnnie Cope
- Lovely Joan
- My Heart Lies
- My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
- Oer The Water Tae Charlie
- Oh Dear Me
- Only Seventeen
- Parcel Of Rogues
- Que Sera Sera
- Run Like The Wind
- Somethings Wrong
- Steamboat Row
- Sule Skerry
- Sullivans John
- Surrender To The Sun
- Tell Me Its Not True
- The Blacksmith
- The Enniskillen Dragoons
- The Foggy Dew
- The January Man
- The Laird Of Dainty Dounby
- The Plooman Laddies
- The Rigs O Rye
- The Same Sky
- The Shipyard Apprentice
- Time After Time
- Tonight
- Van Diemens Land
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- Winters Come
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Barbara Dickson - Jamie Raeburn
## NOTE: The INTRO begins after the flute at the start of the orchestration ##
[INTRO:] F C Dm Bb D C Dm Bb
[VERSE 1:]
N.C. C Dm7 F C
Oh, my name is Jamie Raeburn, frae (Glasiskatoon) I came
F Am F G
My place and habitation, I'm forced to leave with shame
F C Dm7 F G
From my place and habitation, I now must gang awa'
F Dm7 C F C Am Bb
Far frae the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia
[VERSE 2:]
C Dm7 F C
It was early in the morning, just by the break of day
F Am F G
We were wakened by the turnkey, who unto us did say
F C Dm7 F G
"Arise ye hapless convicts, arise ye ain and a'
F Dm7 C F C F G
This is the day ye are to stray frae Caledonia"
[VERSE 3:]
C Dm7 F C
We all arose, put on our clothes, our hearts were full a' grief
F Am F G
Our friends who stood around the coach could grant us no relief
F C Dm7 F G
Our parents, wives and sweethearts, their hearts were broke in twa
F Dm7 C F Am
To see us leave the hills and dales of Caledonia
[INSTRUMENTAL:] Am F Am F Em F G
[VERSE 4:]
C Dm7 F C
Farewell my ageing mother, I'm vexed for what I've done
F Am F G
I hope none will cast up to you, the race that I have run
F C Dm7 F G
I hope god will protect you when I am far awa'
F Dm7 C F C Am Bb
Far frae the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia
[VERSE 5:]
C Dm7 F C
Farewell, my honest faither, you are the best of men
F Am F G
And likewise my own sweetheart, young Catherine is her name
F C Dm7 F G
Nay mair we'll walk by Clyde's clear stream or by the Broomielaw
F Dm7 C F Am
For I must leave the hills and dales of Caledonia
[INSTRUMENTAL:] Am F Am F Em F G
[OUTRO:]
F Dm7 C F C
Far frae the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia
C Dm Bb D C Dm Bb
## NOTE: The INTRO begins after the flute at the start of the orchestration ##
[INTRO:] F C Dm Bb D C Dm Bb
[VERSE 1:]
N.C. C Dm7 F C
Oh, my name is Jamie Raeburn, frae (Glasiskatoon) I came
F Am F G
My place and habitation, I'm forced to leave with shame
F C Dm7 F G
From my place and habitation, I now must gang awa'
F Dm7 C F C Am Bb
Far frae the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia
[VERSE 2:]
C Dm7 F C
It was early in the morning, just by the break of day
F Am F G
We were wakened by the turnkey, who unto us did say
F C Dm7 F G
"Arise ye hapless convicts, arise ye ain and a'
F Dm7 C F C F G
This is the day ye are to stray frae Caledonia"
[VERSE 3:]
C Dm7 F C
We all arose, put on our clothes, our hearts were full a' grief
F Am F G
Our friends who stood around the coach could grant us no relief
F C Dm7 F G
Our parents, wives and sweethearts, their hearts were broke in twa
F Dm7 C F Am
To see us leave the hills and dales of Caledonia
[INSTRUMENTAL:] Am F Am F Em F G
[VERSE 4:]
C Dm7 F C
Farewell my ageing mother, I'm vexed for what I've done
F Am F G
I hope none will cast up to you, the race that I have run
F C Dm7 F G
I hope god will protect you when I am far awa'
F Dm7 C F C Am Bb
Far frae the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia
[VERSE 5:]
C Dm7 F C
Farewell, my honest faither, you are the best of men
F Am F G
And likewise my own sweetheart, young Catherine is her name
F C Dm7 F G
Nay mair we'll walk by Clyde's clear stream or by the Broomielaw
F Dm7 C F Am
For I must leave the hills and dales of Caledonia
[INSTRUMENTAL:] Am F Am F Em F G
[OUTRO:]
F Dm7 C F C
Far frae the bonnie hills and dales of Caledonia
C Dm Bb D C Dm Bb
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