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Loch Lomond Lyrics
By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes
Where the sun shines on Loch Lomond
Where me and my true love spent many days o
On the banks of Loch Lomond
To sad we parted in yon shady glen
On the steep sides of Ben Lomond
Where the broken heart it knows no second spring
Resigned we must be when we’re parting
You'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Ho, ho mo leannan
Ho, ho mo leannan bhoidheach
You'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
You'll take the high road and
I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Where the sun shines on Loch Lomond
On the banks of Loch Lomond
On the steep sides of Ben Lomond
Resigned we must be when we’re parting
I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Ho, ho mo leannan bhoidheach
I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
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I think it means my beautiful maiden. He is longing after his beautiful maiden. I was lucky enough to see them at Loch Ness and in Cambridge this year. This song is an amazing encore. I am so glad the Children in Need single got to number 9.
It's about a kind of combination of some of the above comments... PeteNefyn was closest. Two men were captured during a Scottish uprising, and one of them was released while the other was put to death. The song is from the perspective of the soldier who is killed, who will take the "low road", which is the afterlife, as his spirit travels back to Scotland, while his comrade must physically walk over the high lands. The other bits of the song are about how him and his lover used to spend their days of the banks of Loch Lomond, and how he will never be able to spend that time with her again.
this song is best at a ceilidh or even better, at Hampden at half time during a Scotland game. I always thought the gaelic bit in the middle sounded like... "Home, home, we're livin..home we're livin for you..." i know it doesnt mean that but i still sing it like that anyway.
They played this song in the Three sisters in Edinburgh the Night before the Scotland V Ireland match in Murrayfield this year.
Tis a great version of the song. Really uplifting. I am Irish had a great weekend in Scotland. Great Country.
It
s something to do with a Highlander being captured by the English. He was to be put to death, so hed reach Scotland by "the low road" or the underworld/afterlife. I take it the "high road" means the land of the living. Fantastic song! Makes me want to be proud to be Scottish, even tho I`m Welsh :)