Lyrics - Loch Lomond by The Corries

Notes:
This song is often played jauntily and used as arepresentatively
Scottish tuneparticularly infilms and computer games (
Lemmings 2 for example)
It deserves better.
The song is a lament for a lost lovekilled in battle.
He will now take the "high road" (inheaven) while
Moira (his love) stays on the "low road."
They will never meet again in this lifebut they willsome day meet againfar above the bonnie banks of
Loch lomond.
O wither away my bonnie
May (which direction)
Sae late an' sae far in the gloamin' (so far in the dusk)
The mist gather grey o'er moorland and brae (hill)
O wither sae far are ye roamin'?
Chorus:
O ye'll tak the high road an'
I'll tak the low
I'll be in
Scotland afore ye
For me and my true love will never meet again
By the bonnie bonnie banks o'
Loch
Lomond
I trusted my ain love last night in the broom (own) (bush)
My
Donald wha' loves me sae dearly
For the morrow he will march for
Edinburgh toon (town)
Tae fecht for his
King and
Prince
Charlie (to fight)
O well may
I weep for yestreen in my sleep (well) (yesterday) we stood bride and bridegroom together
But his arms and his breath were as cold as the death
And his heart's blood ran red in the heather(chorus)
As dauntless in battle as tender in love
He'd yield ne'er a foor toe the foeman (enemy)
But never again frae the field o' the slain (from)
Tae his
Moira will he come by
Loch
Lomond
The thistle may bloom, the
King hae his ain (have his own)
And fond lovers may meet in the gloamin'
And me and my true love will yet meet again
Far above the bonnie banks of
Loch
Lomond(chorus)

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