Leaving Town (Lyric Video)

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While the people of Glasgow were building vessels destined for the far flung regions of the globe, most had neither the opportunity nor the financial capability to travel any further than the Clyde themselves. This song features “a local boy with a world of expectations” - holding onto every word of a girl who tells him about her own journeys and voyages he could only ever dream of. These pipe dreams are shared with the final verse of By the Quayside: “sailing out across the world, just you and your bonnie girl”.

Our own highland frame of reference sneaks into the lyrics for Leaving Town when the boy is described as having “spent all his days in the shade of the same old mountain”. Throughout the 20th century and during the city’s industrial heyday, there was a large and thriving highland diaspora who travelled South to find employment in the city and took root among its famous tenement streets. Right up to the present day, Glasgow always felt to us like a gateway to a wider world that we could only imagine while growing up in the Highlands.


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It was a quiet place
And she would soon be leaving
She’d been all across the world and never stayed too long
Then by the saving grace
Of a summer’s evening
She changed her mind by the light of a setting sun

Oh he was born and raised here for 20 years and counting
He’d lived all his days in the shade of the same old mountain

He said tell me what you think, when you leaving town?
I’ll offer you a drink when the sun goes down
I’ll tell you everything I’ve been dreaming now and then
When you’re leaving town again

She told him all she knew
Of the lands that claimed her
How the Southern Cross and the Northern Lights would glow
He said: “I harbour hope
That I could be a sailor And visit all the countries you tell me that I should go”

Just a local boy with a world of expectation
He knew the fear of God but found the devil fascinating

He said tell me what you think, when you leaving town?
I’ll offer you a drink when the sun goes down
I’ll tell you everything I’ve been dreaming now and then
He said tell me what you think, when you leaving town?
I’ll offer you a drink when the sun goes down
I’ll tell you everything I’ve been dreaming now and then
When you’re leaving town again