First published on the Steem blockchain by @remlaps on October 07, 2024. View the original post.
When I was a kid, maybe 4 or 5 years old, there was a song that my grandfather would sing to me while I was sitting on his knee. By the time I was in my twenties, after my grandfather had passed away, all I could remember of the song was a line or two of the chorus:
You take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland before you.
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Although I remembered him singing it, I had no idea what song that chorus was from for another decade or two. Then, maybe fifteen or twenty years ago, it occurred to me to use Internet magic to find the song, and I finally learned what you probably already know... The song was, The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond. According to Justapedia, the song is:
"a Jacobite adaptation of an eighteenth-century erotic song, with the lover dying for his king, and taking only the 'low road' of death back to Scotland."
Having tracked it down, every once in a while, I amuse myself by listening to different renditions of the song on YouTube.
