Sanday

Sandy, so far from here

When the wind howls, I still feel near you

Sandy, you hear the barking sound

It's no seal call, no farmer's hound

Back when we found out that the game was real

Bobbing on a ruckle of rusted steel

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy

Now Sandy's just names on stones

And tangles and sun-bleached animal bones

Memory is now my home

The grey dog like the old world has flown

We got pinned down in a field

Nothing else has ever seemed so real

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy

Thirty years since I've been gone

Celebrate me with plastic flags and scones

The boys who didn't last so long

Will take no comfort from your wartime songs

My folk are scattered and now none live there

My time lives on as long as they breathe air

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy