Dance Called America Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Miss Wilde 

Cover art for Dance Called America lyrics by Runrig

I don't know jack about this artist, but I heard this song on Pandora and I liked it a lot. Not sure what it means, but it reminded me of the Proclaimer's song Letter to America. These guys have Scottish accents too, right?

Runrig are a Scottish band, with the founding members coming from the Outer Hebrides (Skye and North Uist) - the song is about the Highland clearances and the fact that the cynical English who forced so many Scots to emigrate to the Americas actually named a dance "America" in "honour" of the Scots... >:(