These Are My Mountains Lyrics And Chords

​Song Meaning: "These Are My Mountains""These Are My Mountains" is a beloved Scottish folk song , often performed by various folk singers and groups with a strong emotional connection to Scotland’s landscape and heritage. The song is a poignant expression of love for one’s homeland and the deep ties to family and tradition.

Themes and Meaning:

1. Nostalgia for Home:
   The song captures the emotional pull of home, especially for those who have left. The narrator expresses a yearning to return to the mountains, valleys, and familiar surroundings of their childhood.
   • “For these are my mountains, and this is my glen / The braes of my childhood will know me again.”
     This reflects the deep emotional attachment to the land and the comfort it brings.
2. Cultural Pride:
   The song celebrates the rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands, evoking pride in Scotland’s natural landscape and rural way of life. The mountains symbolize strength, permanence, and a connection to ancestry.
3. Family and Community:
   References to returning to one’s family highlight the importance of kinship and the support of close relationships. The song often evokes images of hearth and home, where one finds love and belonging.
4. Resilience and Identity:
   The narrator’s connection to the mountains suggests a strong sense of identity and roots, symbolizing how one’s homeland shapes who they are.
5. Melancholy and Joy:
   While the song expresses longing and perhaps regret over time spent away, it also conveys hope and joy in the possibility of returning to one’s roots.

Musical Style:The song is typically performed as a slow, reflective ballad with simple yet powerful melodies. Its heartfelt lyrics and traditional Scottish folk style often make it a favorite for sing-alongs and gatherings, especially among Scottish communities and those with ties to Scotland.

These Are My Mountains lyrics  chords and sheet music plus the tin whistle notes, written by Jimmy Copeland. [ Scottish Folk Song ] Recorded by The Alexander Brothers, Coln Grant, Kieran McGilligan. The video is of Kieran who plays in the key of G Major which I has set the song in. Change the key and chords to suit your own voice. Kieran McGilligan is one of Ireland's most successful Irish country singers.

[G]For fame and for fortune I [C]wandered the [G]earth 
And [C]now I've come [G]back to the land of my [D]birth 
I've brought back my [G]treasures [G7]but only to [C]find 
They're less than the [G]pleasures I [D]first left be[G]hind 

CHORUS
For these are my mountains and this is my glen 
The braes of my childhood will know me again 
No land's ever claimed me tho' far I did roam 
For these are my mountains and I'm going home 
and I'm coming home 

The berm by the road sings at my going by 
The lark overhead wings a welcoming cry 
The loch where the scart flies at last I can see 
It's here where my heart lies it's here I'll be free 

Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in 
And how they will greet me my ain kith and kin 
The night by the ingle old sangs will be sung 
At last I'll be hearing my ain mother tongue. 
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​These Are My Mountains sheet music

These are my mountains piano sheet music in D

These are my mountains sheet music and tin whistle notes in the key of D

For these are my mountains pianosheet music notes