{"id":264,"date":"2020-04-06T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-04-10T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:18:23","slug":"burghead-sands-gordon-menzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Burghead Sands.  (Gordon Menzies)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Come again, come again ye Burghead men<br>\nAnd sail wi&#8217; the mornin&#8217; tide<br>\nCome again, come again through the wind and the rain<br>\nTo the place where you&#8217;ll always bide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you know when you stand on the Burghead sand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thou the years be ten times ten<br> You&#8217;ll aye be a slave to the ocean wave<br> Till your back on the sea once again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the fishing&#8217;s done, the harvest won<br> Make good  your boats  guide<br> Tae the harbour gate, where the woman wait<br> Till you&#8217;re safely by their side<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> Born in the lee of the great North Sea<br> Where the weepin&#8217; willows lapped<br> Married at birth to the Moray Firth<br> And the deck o&#8217; a fishin&#8217; craft<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nCome again, come again ye Burghead men<br>\nTae the Broch where you&#8217;ll aye belong<br>\nTo the Dewar&#8217;s Well the Claive&#8217;s smell<br>\nAnd the Oyster catchers song<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come again, come again ye Burghead men And sail wi&#8217; the mornin&#8217; tide Come again, come again through the wind and the rain To the place where you&#8217;ll always bide Chorus: And you know when you stand on the Burghead sand Thou the years be ten times ten You&#8217;ll aye be a slave to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burghead Sands.  (Gordon Menzies)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}