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THE GREEN DROVE ROAD

by David Heavenor

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Written after looking back at some pictures of Iona when I visited with a friend many years ago. I was also re-reading kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson and Davy Balfour starts out on his journey to claim his inheritance on a 'Green Drove Road' . The drover roads were the tracks where people corralled their livestock to market.

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THE GREEN DROVE ROAD

I walked the green drove road
Past lochans lined in mist
My map was cracked and torn
I didn't care, I just kept on
A village cast in stone
History in ruins
Now the island lies ahead
Some secret there I'd read

I never took your name in vain
Iona lies here in my arms again

The truth gets hard to face
But it frees you in its grace
Beyond the dogma's stain
Upon your Christian name
You don't know who you are
Nothing ever is conceived
Where ever thing's received from someone else's star

I never took your name in vain
Iona lies here in my arms again

So many roads are crossed
To raise a pattern from the dust
And love through loneliness
And stars through storms
If I give you my onliness
Will you lie here dreaming in my arms?

A name now etched in stone
To know as we are known
A figure scopes this hill
A serpent spins around the well
How can you ever grasp
How can you ever own
The mercury of love
Deep riven in your soul?

I never took your name in vain
Iona lies here in my arms again

credits

released September 13, 2014
Voice and guitar: David Heavenor
Piano and organ: Steve Butler
Bass: Sandy Butler
Drums: Stu Kidd
Guitar: Rory Butler
B. Vocals: Fay Butler

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David Heavenor is a Scottish singer songwriter based in Edinburgh Scotland. He has produced 8 albums plus 3 EP's.

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