Ballad Of Inverawe chords by Rich Nardin

G                   C
I'll tell it to you as they told it to me
    G          Am    D
By the glow of the campfire burning
    G              Bm     C
By the banks of the water where we sported and played
   G           D  G
They once faced the fury of battle

CHORUS:
G                         C
And up through the Champlain came the Highland Brigade
  G                     D
The pipes and the drummers played Scotland the Brave
  G             Bm     C
But when they sailed home the piper's refrain
  G    C    D  G
Was "O, how cruel the volley"

G                  C
To one Duncan Campbell it came in a dream
   G                   Am  D
That he'd meet his fate where he never had been;
     G            Bm     C
Where the blue waters roll and the stickerbush tear,
   G             D      G
It's "Travel well, Duncan, I'll wait on you there.

G                         C
"For the French and the Indian have challenged our King."
   G                Am    D
(To a soldier like Duncan, no need to explain.)
   G        Bm      C
"'Tis many a time I've travelled the waves
  G          D G
To find my fate in the fire."

CHORUS:
G                         C
And up through the Champlain came the Highland Brigade
  G                     D
The pipes and the drummers played Scotland the Brave
  G             Bm     C
But when they sailed home the piper's refrain
  G    C    D  G
Was "O, how cruel the volley"

G                        C
From Fort William Henry their boats have shoved off
    G              Am    D
To the North of Lake George in the morning;
    G            Bm   C
To the place the Frenchmen call Carillon,
    G       D  G
And the Indians: Ticonderoga.

G                       C
And the word struck Duncan like a thunderbolt there;
G          Am    D
Everyone knew of the warning.
   G         Bm     C
"So, play us a tune to remember me by,
   G          D   G
For tomorrow I'll not be returning."

CHORUS:
G                         C
And up through the Champlain came the Highland Brigade
  G                     D
The pipes and the drummers played Scotland the Brave
  G             Bm     C
But when they sailed home the piper's refrain
  G    C    D  G
Was "O, how cruel the volley"

G                      C
When the gunpowder flashed, the Highlanders died,
G              Am  D
Never again to walk the hillside.
    G            Bm     C
In the wilderness green, in the sun and the rain,
   G           D   G
It's here they're forever remaining.

G                     C
And I've told it to you as they told it to me,
  G                    Am  D
Of one Duncan Campbell and the Highland Brigade.
     G            Bm      C
Where the campfire crackles in the summertime's wane,
      G              D     G
Through the mist on the water comes the piper's refrain.

CHORUS:
G                         C
And up through the Champlain came the Highland Brigade
  G                     D
The pipes and the drummers played Scotland the Brave
  G             Bm     C
But when they sailed home the piper's refrain
  G    C    D  G