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[Verse]
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Leave the land behind, laddie, there's better days to find
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The companies have the money and they'll soon teach you the skill
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There's green fields far away, laddie, the forties and the brae
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Be a mudman or a roustabout, ye'll soon learn how to drill
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But who will tend the sheep when I'm far o'er the deep?
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On the Neptune or the Seaquest when the snow comes to the hill

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[Verse]
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Leave the fishin' trade, laddie, there's money tae be made
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The handline and the Shetland yawl are from a bygone day
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Come tae Aberdeen, laddie, sights ye've never seen
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Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter at Nigg Bay
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When the job is o'er and my boat rots on the shore
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How will I feed my family when the companies move away?

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[Verse]
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There's harbours to be built, lad, rigs to tow an tilt
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They rest upon the ocean bed like pylons in the sea
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There's pipelines to be laid an' a hundred different trades
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That will pay a decent livin' wage to the likes o' you and me
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I ken ye're men o' worth, you're the best that's in the north
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Not men of greed, but men who need the work that's come yer way
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From Flutta tae Kishorn a new industry is born
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Now Peterhead and Cromarty will never be the same

[Outro]
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