For those who don't understand this song I'll try to explain it in a short version. It's a Scottish song about two Scottish prisoners of war (English captives): One prisoner gets released, and the other prisoner is condemned and will be executed. None the less the condemned prisoner will never meet his true love on Loch Lomond again. The low road is underground (the grave) 6' above that is the high road. The executed prisoner will be in Scotland before his friend because he'll be there in spirit.

@HighlandSaga

4 жыл бұрын

Aye

@CarlosGarcia-ui2up

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation ¡gracias!

@rolfkrucke8307

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@kmora7360

3 жыл бұрын

Wow quite a tear jerker explanation, as are all the explanations of this ancient song. Your has a twist I've never come across, in all the decades of explanations I have heard or read of.

@sonsofthunder915

3 жыл бұрын

@@kmora7360 At the time in Scottish history when "Loch Lomond" was a new song, the United Kingdom (which united Scotland, England, and Wales) had already been formed. But the Highland Scots wanted a Scottish, not an English King to rule. Led by their Bonnie Prince Charlie (Prince Charles Edward Stuart) they attempted unsuccessfully to depose Britain's King George II. An army of 7,000 Highlanders were defeated on April 16, 1746 at the famous Battle of Culloden Moor. It is this same battle that indirectly gives rise to this beautiful song. After the battle, many Scottish soldiers were imprisoned within England's Carlisle Castle, near the border of Scotland. "Loch Lomond" tells the story of two Scottish soldiers who were so imprisoned. One of them was to be executed, while the other was to be set free. According to Celtic legend if someone dies in a foreign land, his spirit will travel to his homeland by "the low road" - the route for the souls of the dead. In the song, the spirit of the dead soldier shall arrive first, while the living soldier will take the "high road" over the mountains, to arrive afterwards. The song is from the point of view of the soldier who will be executed: When he sings, "ye'll tak' the high road and I'll tak' the low road" in effect he is saying that you will return alive, and I will return in spirit. He remembers his happy past, "By yon bonnie banks ... where me and my true love were ever wont to gae [accustomed to go]" and sadly accepts his death "the broken heart it ken nae [knows no] second Spring again." www.manhattanbeachmusic.com/html/loch_lomond.html#:~:text=%22Loch%20Lomond%22%20tells%20the%20story,the%20souls%20of%20the%20dead

I'm so in love with SCOTLAND and I miss you so much.......

i miss Scotland but I promise you I will die there. We love you Highland Saga!!!

To me,one of the most beautiful scottish song. Hail caledonia. Me,from Austria 🇦🇹🙋

Whenever I feel tired or sad..I close my eyes and remember my trip to the Highlands with my fiancé, almost 4 years ago. Those are my favorite memories together. There are no words to describe how deeply I love Scotland. It's something that comes from my heart and I can't explain why. I hope to be back soon, because I miss Scotland so SO much. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

@paulepanzer4498

2 жыл бұрын

that's the truly the same what happens to me since I've visited Scotland. Albaaaaaaaa I miss you so much

Beautiful song beautifully sung by a pretty Scots lass in her native tongue and accent So no pretences there Brilliant

wow, a great song with a lot of love and soul. And we Riggies stand up and singing loud with.

@HighlandSaga

4 жыл бұрын

Sing it loud.

In 1965 when i was 10 studying in Ashby Road School, Ipoh, Standard 3, i larned this song. It has remained with me all these years. Very touching and sad with the haunting music. And i sang this song on the actual Loch Lomomd It was a special moment to reconnect with years gone bye

How much I love Scotland as I love my Scottish friends. It's culture, high quality music , lifestyle 👌

That singer is one of a kind. No wonder the Scots settled in my country Smoky Mountains NC It looks l a lot like Scotland. We still use a lot of Scottish words.

@robinbanks895

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, my husband’s family is from Scotland(McCleney). They came here and settled in North Carolina, then migrated over and down to Tennessee and then North Alabama, where we stayed.

""Loch Lomond" tells the story of two Scottish soldiers who were so imprisoned. One of them was to be executed, while the other was to be set free. According to Celtic legend if someone dies in a foreign land, his spirit will travel to his homeland by "the low road" - the route for the souls of the dead. In the song, the spirit of the dead soldier shall arrive first, while the living soldier will take the "high road" over the mountains, to arrive afterwards. The song is from the point of view of the soldier who will be executed: When he sings, "ye'll tak' the high road and I'll tak' the low road" in effect he is saying that you will return alive, and I will return in spirit. He remembers his happy past, "By yon bonnie banks ... where me and my true love were ever wont to gae [accustomed to go]" and sadly accepts his death "the broken heart it ken nae [knows no] second Spring again."

@HighlandSaga

Жыл бұрын

Aye

@stellahwyim

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the story behind😊

@ANAORTIZALAR

Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your explanation. When I was a young girl, I sang it in the chorus in my high school in Montevideo, Uruguay. I was always delighted with this lovely song. THANK you very much

@Kayman8190

Жыл бұрын

@@ANAORTIZALAR Nothing like a timeless sense of nostalgia. I am happy to share the feeling with you.

@jackieharris9666

11 ай бұрын

Beautiful song. Thank you for explaining the story. My paternal family was from Wales. Guess that’s close enough 😊

I visited Scotland and i also saw Loch Lomond such beautiful place i fell in love with scotland then and now even more since i saw Outlander

one of the best versions of this epic song.

Fabulous rendition, the first time I heard this was in Sherlock Holmes, Pursuit To Algiers, and I've loved it since, this is my favorite so far

May God keep forever all the brave men and women who gave their lives for their country!

@lyndseykramer

2 ай бұрын

For their fellows surely?

@user-wc5go9sb5j

Ай бұрын

Great globalist finance controls politics (conservative, labour, SNP, greens are full of great finance puppets) and wants to destroy family (gender theory, LGBT ideology, pornography, ...) because family is the greatest obstacle to the full control of people; muslim immigrants in Europe are also instruments for this satanic project; SNP has nothing Scottish about it (except the name). Read G.K. Chesterton, a great defender of family and freedom. Wake up Scots: protect your families, children and freedom!

This Celtic origin people are really magical.

I have only a few drops of scottish blood but this song goes so deep that it makes me cry a river.

Loch Lomond is basically on the outskirts of my hometown Glasgow. Place of beauty

"Me and my true love will never meet again ..." So tragic yet true!

As a Scot living away from home this just brings a tear or two to the eye. The build up to the Bagpipes part is brilliant . Love it . Happy New 2022 to all around the world.

@paulepanzer4498

2 жыл бұрын

Good bless you and Scotland. Albaaaaaaaa I miss you so much

My gosh that is such a beautiful rendition. I don't now how could I have missed this for four years. This is one of the songs my dad used to sing on long drives because we had no radio in the chevy. When I was 3 or 4 yers old this is the first song my father ever explained for me.

I still adore this beautiful song. I learned this song when I was a little girl from my mother. ❤❤❤

Me mither ( as she'd say) used to sing this song or Galway Bay, as she washed the supper dishes, when I was small. ❤ I didnt know this story. I thought they were soldiers going to battle and one of them, just knew he wouldn’t be coming home to see his love, again. 🙏💕

This song reminds me that freedom comes at a cost and is just as much of a right as breathing air

I'm irish but I love listening to louch lomand and I love going to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

You are always welcome

ARE THESE PICTURES IN SCOTLAND would be GREATFULL RESPECT AND BLESSINGS

I visited Lock Lomand five years ago to visit where my grandfather grew up. Absolutely beautiful place! I want to return before my long sleep. It was so strange to feel at home when I had never been there before. The highlanders certainly are a lucky lot.

Ein wunderschönes Lied ,so wie das Land. Ich mag diese Musik und Schottland und Irland ,das ist was für Herz und Seele . ❤

My Daddy moved to Australia when he was 18, 2 days later he joined the Australian army. He served his new nation fighting in Vietnam, he saw many atrocities and many many good friends die in Vietnam and then all his big group of friends die from rare cancers and undiagnosed PTSD. He is now on his death bed and even though he isn’t conscious as soon as I started playing this he started to move. It is breathtaking and I will always treasure this memory of playing it to him before he passes onto his eternal home. He loves Australia but has always loved Scotland and wore his kilt with pride at all his children’s weddings. Thank you for such a beautiful rendition.

@HighlandSaga

Жыл бұрын

He will take the "low road" to the Highlands and the fairies of the Highlands will welcome him.

@jesusreignsoveraustralia

Жыл бұрын

@@HighlandSaga thank you, that brought tears to my eyes. This will now be a favourite video in our home. I showed my 8 year old this and we’ve decided we will go and spread some of his ashes at Loch Lomond one day.

@HighlandSaga

Жыл бұрын

@@jesusreignsoveraustralia This is a very beautiful and honourable undertaking. His soul will be waiting for you there. He will be reunited with all his ancestors who lost their lives on many battlefields of the world. „I hope you will tell the story of this Highland Saga to all your friends and with it the moral of this tale. If we must do battle let our weapons be music.“

Love this song my dad use to play this song and danny boy when we were small love the pipes. I am from Trinidad and Tobago but i love this song

My all time favorite song.

This is absolutely beautiful 🌟🌊🥺😢❤️ Especially since I’m Scottish! Those pipes bring chills❤️ beautiful

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Robin

I'm in Colorado but this brings more than a tear or 2 wearing a kilt to my nephews wedding next month and requested this song

@richardcobey9415

3 жыл бұрын

Alba gu brath

@HighlandSaga

Жыл бұрын

Aye

Just pop on my wall, then I search for Highland Saga, nice Melody... I don't know what really the song for, but thruthfully it goes deep down to my soul...

Proud to be Scottish!

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Aye

As ASIAN like me....cant fully understand the SCOTTISH words.But the lyric and the melody really touched my heart!!!Love it...soo wonderful!!!!

As a Buchanan, I appreciate this so much!! Clarior hinc honos!!!

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings to all Buchanans

Scottish born & bred, and Australian since my eighth birthday, but songs like this (one of my all-time favourites from home), draw you back again and again. Add a drum and the skirl of the pipes and you realize that you never really left in thee first place. And what a beautiful , uplifting version of The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond this is; one od the best I've ever heard, and believe me, I've heard many. I don't know how many times I've played this clip, but I just love to hear it, and to watch the vodeo. I.m now 77, and I want to thank you so much for taking back home to the wonderful land where I was born & ensuring I don't forget it. I love Australia, but part of me will always be in Scotland, the land of my birth.

I have always loved this song since I was a little girl.

@marybethsuiter6877

3 жыл бұрын

My daddy taught me this song when I was 5 and he only sang it with me when we would go in the car together. This song makes me cry it has touched my heart deaply

My favorite song. Maeve's beautiful voice, the scenery. And those guys in kilts. The drummer ramrod straight banging on the drums and the other guy playing the bagpipes so beautifully. I love the entire video. ❤️. 👍

Wow! This was so beautiful! It is the best version I have heard. The number one country I really want to visit before my last breath! ❤😍❤

@HighlandSaga

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lars

@LarsStinell

2 жыл бұрын

@@HighlandSaga I'm a singer-songwriter and wish I could write songs like this! And sing that good! I wrote my first song for my father who passed away in 2014. I love the title Kommer sol, kommer skratt (With the sun comes the joy.) Hope to hear more from you! ❤

@petra2456

2 жыл бұрын

😄👍👌

Went there last ear on a tour of Greta Britain. Breathtaking scenery throughout Scotland.

@yxx_chris_xxy

Ай бұрын

Did ye tak the high road or the low road last ear, and who is Greta?

Beautiful but haunting song. Beautiful Scotland.

Hat’s off to whomever the guitarist is. Definitely the most beautiful picking of this song I’ve ever heard.

Quite amazing. Brought back so many memories. Irene Ostman.

@HighlandSaga

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

The vocals, the guitar, the pipes and drum all superior!

Your voice is angelic. Beautiful song.

I learned this song in primary school when I was about 12 years of age. In Kuala Lumpur. My teacher Miss Coelho had her teacher training in Kirby Training college, England. She returned and taught us to sing many folks songs from UK. She also met a Scotsman there and they got married the year after. She left Malaysia n went with her husband to Papua New Quinea where he was posted. She sent postcards back a couple of times. But I never saw my beloved teacher again. God bless her.

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

That is a very nice story. Maybe we'll tell this in the sequel to our Highland Saga.

May God bless this singer.

@user-wc5go9sb5j

Ай бұрын

Great globalist finance controls politics (conservative, labour, SNP, greens are full of great finance puppets) and wants to destroy family (gender theory, LGBT ideology, pornography, ...) because family is the greatest obstacle to the full control of people; muslim immigrants in Europe are also instruments for this satanic project; SNP has nothing Scottish about it (except the name). Read G.K. Chesterton, a great defender of family and freedom. Wake up Scots: protect your families, children and freedom!

I am not meaning to run up the watch count on this video, but I just cannot get enough of this arrangement. There is something about this song that stabs at the heart of my spirit. I come back to it day after day. I’ve been to Ireland but I think I missed out on going to Scotland. Very, very, beautiful.

@johngoodwin4811

Жыл бұрын

Perfect. I feel the same way. This may be the best song I've ever heard--and that's saying a lot. The bagpipes are just special.

@taouser2

Жыл бұрын

@@johngoodwin4811 Oh yeah. When the pipes break in it takes it to a whole new level.

@johngoodwin4811

Жыл бұрын

@@taouser2 That rarest of things: The perfect song.

I will surely visit Scotland

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

I never ever get tired of hearing this son..stunning photography, and the music is extraordinary

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

this evergreen is several hundred years old, but my musician's soul and my heart still rise when I can hear it sung by such a wonderfully warm voice from Ella Roberts. 1000 thanks from my heart and soul

@HighlandSaga

11 ай бұрын

It’s not the voice of Ella, it’s the voice of Maeve

@PRONTOMUSIC

11 ай бұрын

@@HighlandSaga Excuse me, but those who can read have a clear advantage. :-) You described in the info attachment that Maeve MacKinnon sing this song. Please forgive me. Many thanks for the information, also for your wonderful creative work, many thanks to the Highland Saga team. Best regards

Me and my family were supposed to move to Scotland but couldn't becuase of Covid-19, i was deeply upset and this song makes me want to go even more but it lso makes me feel like i am there. thank you for posting this song. i love it very much. :)

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

A wonderful version of this great song. I am English, and not as bad as some Scots may think, and the way this song is sung sounds really authentic to my ears.

This is a great version of a song with an amazing story.Her voice conveys the depth.

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

The woman has a fantastic voice and the pictures of scotland are fantastic too. I love the scotish music with the drums and bagpipes.

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Susanne

Love this. Auld lang syne too. Such a good singer :)

Best arrangement of this song I’ve heard.

Beautiful, without doubt the best version I have ever heard.

My Eyes Have Thistles and the tears like torrents flow....Great... Thanks

Love all Songs from Scotland,my father came from Glasgow Scotland!

This is amazing AMAZING Greetings and blessings from Argentina

I'm glad to say that my Uncle John was a gardener at Loch Lomond.

From the Philippines. Such a very very touching song. Love to hear this song often.

@anthonylaus8152

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

Beautiful song translated into Spanish. Por aquellas hermosas costas y colinas Donde el sol brilla, en el Lago Lomond. Donde yo y mi verdadero amor pasábamos muchos días En las hermosas,hermosas orillas del lago Lomond. Tú tomarás el camino alto, yo tomaré el bajo, Y llegare a Escocia, antes que tú; Pero yo y mi verdadero amor nunca nos volveremos a encontrar En las hermosas,hermosas orillas del Lago Lomond. Fue allí donde nos separamos en aquel sombrío valle En las empinadas y empinadas laderas del Ben Lomond Viendo en tonos púrpuras las colinas bajo el horizonte de las tierras altas, Y la luna saliendo al anochecer. Tú tomarás el camino alto, yo tomaré el bajo, Y llegare a Escocia, antes que tú; Pero yo y mi verdadero amor nunca nos volveremos a encontrar En las hermosas,hermosas orillas del Lago Lomond. Los pajarillos cantan,las flores silvestres florecen Y bajo los rayos del sol duermen las aguas. Pero el corazón roto no volverá a florecer Aunque los que están tristes dejen de llorar Tú tomarás el camino alto, yo tomaré el bajo, Y llegare a Escocia, antes que tú; Pero yo y mi verdadero amor nunca nos volveremos a encontrar En las hermosas,hermosas orillas del Lago Lomond.

I am scottish i love Scotland

SUPER!!!

@HighlandSaga

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I've never been outside of America, but I know where my heart is.

M.from.small town of India n never been to Scotland ever hearing this beautiful song it transferred me to the bonnie banks of loch Lomond.. beautiful i wish I could feel it's braes n chills

Wished to see such a very very wonderful beautiful place and country, when I saw it. Beautiful song is matched with views

Scotland for ever! :-)

@richardcobey9415

3 жыл бұрын

Alba gu brath

This is wonderful --- I love it!

I'm from Clan MaKenzie, with Morrison and McLeod mixed in. This is suberb!

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome and thank you

@akkubakku5124

3 жыл бұрын

@Joe D 🙄😂

Very nicely sung. I love the bagpipes as well.

I heard this song for the first time last week at my friend’s graduation and wow, it’s beautiful to read the story. Love love love the song.

This music is veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy moving.

My favorite version of this song! Some ancestors came from Scotland and some from Ireland.

Lovely I love the accent coming through the song beautiful

Its truely a lovely song by a beautiful, lovely lady

Such a beautiful voice!

Thank you! This is wonderful, in every way.

Wunderschönes Lied, von einer tollen Sängerin vorgetragen.

Wow....this is superb!.

Beautifully sung.

Excellent video and beautiful performance. I appreciate it a lot as I believe that I have a wee bit of the Scot in me.

Gorgeous.

Absolutely loved it, brought me too tears.

A tribute to Scottish people where ever they are from a proud and prideful Scottish people

💖👏👏👏beautiful song!

Magnifique! Cela me rappelle des moments tellement beaux en Écosse!

Still can remember this song singing in school singing period.

@moniquedewyk6341

4 ай бұрын

You and everyone else. Don't get me wrong - it is a lovely piece.

@verahoh9040

3 ай бұрын

Yup,learn this in my primary school days,loved it n had been with me until

Scotland is my 'happy place.'

@famster92

22 күн бұрын

For me it's San Francisco where I first heard this song sung from a lady that has first lost her boy and then her husband

i love this song , i had a Scottish foster mother who used to sing it , here version was beautiful it always made me cry , my foster brothers all ways took the mick out of me ....

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

This is a very beautiful memory of your foster mother

this is my super favorite song ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Beatiful song, beatiful sceneri, beatiful girl and an excellent arrangement!

@HighlandSaga

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Thomas.

Beautiful Beautiful Voice,,,God Bless You Always

At school i do that song i love it because it makes me fall asleep and kindad. Makes me sad somtimes

Hearing this song makes me really want to go there someday, such a beautiful melody !

I'll be there on vacay next year. Cannot wait!