As I Walked Down The Road - Dick Gaughan

As I walked by Loch Lomond side

On a fine spring morning

The sun fought with the icy rain

That came on without warning

And all the wee birds sang again

As the mountains shed their winter snow

A finer sight I’d never seen

That day upon the road

By Glen Douglas then I travelled west

Across the hills to reach Loch Long

It put my mettle to the test

And in my heart a joyful song

From Scotland and her beauty wild

So many years I’d been away

I felt the wonder of a child

That day upon the road

But before my eyes the scene it changed

Man-made structures flanked the hills

Caverns grim of concrete gray

In rows so menacing and still

I wondered what these things could be

No reason for them, could I find

A change of mood came over me

That day upon the road