Stepping Stones - Dougie MacLean

And so much time has gone

Since we worked out in these open fields

With the hopes of generations pulled around us

And a strength revealed

And so much has been done

Since we ran around the Snaigow wood

And never knowing where our gentle lights might lead us

Or if indeed they could

And we do not stand alone

I know we stand with all the others

Out in the deep unknown

I know we stand upon their stepping stones

Sure and simple souls guarded round us

As we worldly grew

With nothing greater than what working days might show them

They gave us all they knew

And though their dreams were small

Their true and rural hearts were strong

And with an honest smile that burns from somewhere distant

They helped us all along

And we do not stand alone

I know we stand with all the others

Out in the deep unknown

I know we stand upon their stepping stones

And in these silent hours

When reflection lays our journey down

And we think on all departed conversations

It’s such an earthly sound

And we do not stand alone

I know we stand with all the others

Out in the deep unknown

I know we stand upon their stepping stones