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Burning of the Clavie in Burghead
Recording of ‘Burghead Sands’ by Gaberlunzie, see link below
Burghead Primary School Choir
Director: Anne Palmer
Recording: 1991
Converted from cassette tape
Composer -
Come again come again you Burghead men,
Who sail with the morning tide,
Come again, come again through the wind and the rain,
To the place where you'll always bide.
And you know as you stand on the Burghead sand,
Though the years be ten times ten,
You'll aye be a slave to the ocean wave,
Till you're back on the sea once again.
When the fishing's done the harvest won,
May God your boaties guide,
To the harbour gate where the women wait,
Till you're safely by their side.
Born in the lea of the great North Sea,
Where the weeping willows lap,
Married at birth to the Moray Firth,
And the deck o' a fishing craft.
Come again come again you Burghead men,
To the brocht where you'll aye belong,
To the druid's well and the clavie's smell,
And the oystercatcher's song
Burghead is famous for The Druids Well, the Pictish Fort, and the burning of the Clavie each January 11th (picture below)
BURGHEAD SANDS