The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond
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"The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" is a traditional Scottish song.
There are many theories about the meaning of the song. The primary interpretation is that it is (apocryphally) attributed to a Jacobite Highlander who was captured after the 1745 rising while he was fleeing near Carlisle and is sentenced to die. The verse is his mournful elegy to another rebel who will not be executed. He claims that he will follow the "low road" (the spirit path through the underworld) and arrive in Scotland before his still living comrade.
It captures some of the romantic spirit of the lost cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
[edit] Lyrics
- By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes
- Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
- Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae
- On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond.
Chorus:
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- O ye’ll tak’ the high road and I’ll tak’ the low road
- And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye
- But me and my true love will never meet again
- On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond.
- ‘Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen
- On the steep, steep side o’ Ben Lomond
- Where in deep purple hue, the hieland hills we view
- And the moon comin’ out in the gloamin’.
- The wee birdies sing and the wild flowers spring
- And in sunshine the waters are sleeping
- But the broken heart, it kens nae second spring again
- Tho’ the waefu’ may cease from their greeting.
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