The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond 

This song and it’s melody is hauntingly beautiful and moving. I find myself humming it quite often.

Loch lomond is indeed a beautiful wonder of the world

You should see the Redwoods in Ben Lomond. Great song.

Yes I agree. I was sitting at the Bonnie banks of Loch Lommond and I have to say : I think I was in Heaven. Heartily greetings from Germany

No lie, I am jealous, Sarah.

So sorry for your dad... when he starts singing all his deepest memories cames out. I think there are some memories we'll never forget, no matter if we are sick or dement. Like our mothers love, our homeland or our favourite song.

How sweet..I'm sure he's there waiting to meet you at the gates when your day comes

So sorry for your loss...

Im sorry for your dad brother 😞

So sorry to read this. My dad passed away a year ago tomorrow to dementia. You should give John farnham - angels a listen. I played it at his funeral. Both wonderful to remember them with

we have the sun once or twice haha thats how we appreciate it lol

Come back soon 💚

Just like me. I'm French but I live in Scotland for a while and the Scottish are the friendliest people I have met in all the countries that I have been through. My husband was Scottish and he was just like all of them. If I could retire somewhere it would be in Scotland. Thank you to all men and women of this wonderful country

@@CO-oz1fk I will. I’m actually planning a trip to Scotland to revisit my University and the City I lived in for 4 years. I’ve such amazing memories from Stirling and Edinburgh.

@@andrecardoso6941 Nice cities for sure. Hope you have spent some time in Glasgow 😉

IKR? I live halfway across the world and I can enjoy this music...

it's even more chilling when you know that the guy who wrote this was (supposedly) on his way to be executed.

I'd never heard that version,. I've always read that it was written by a woman who lost her lover at Culloden. In my favorite version they meet in the sky oer Loch Lomond

Little Dikkins Such is the way of things... We may never know the true story...

I was always told that the song is about 2 men who were captured by the British. One was to be executed (taking the low road) the other was to go back to his clan (the high road) to let them know that execution is the punishment for traitors to the crown.

Dear Trekker , thanks a lot for that. I always had something else in mind. But I am not British but from Germany. Now I know what it this is all about. Very sad. And I love this song so much. Feel embraced by an old Hippie in Berlin

You forgot a small but important detail. This song was based on a story from the Jacobite uprising, in which the English soldiers were at times incredibly cruel. The part you missed was that the English soldiers gave a choice to the two captured the Scotsmen, that one would die and one would live. Then the one Scotsman gives up his life for the other to return back to Scotland alive.

thank you so much for saying this

@@PaulThePuppetier Did not know the background of the song but love it even more now

I've seen multiple stories regarding the origin of this song, but I'm gonna pick yours, because that was beautiful.

Thank you for sharing this. It's moving really, to hear what this song means to people.

Sorry for your loss my mom died on November 28. She was not Scottish but married to my Dad and she always kept us involved in Scottish tradition.Scottish games , Scottish festivals , she bought things Scottish etc. Went to Robert Burns dinners etc. To me she is Scottish . Almost 4 months and still heartbroken.

My investors are from Inverness too 😊

@Sir Kyushu 🤣🤣 good pick up! 🤣 I think I meant ancestors... Auto correct!! 🙄🙄

@Sir Kyushu yeah - it was funny! I'm a bit Irish, bit Scottish, bit Scandinavian, bit English 😁

My Dad sang this song to me as a lullaby too when I was a wee lassie. Fond memory. My parents are both from East Ayrshire & raised me & my sis in the US. All our family is still there & I've always gone back. Last visit '19. Hopefully '22.

Skylar .. I'm still listening to this beautiful song in 2022 xx I'm of Irish descent but I'm 100% confident there's Scottish blood running through my veins also... I am so passionate about Scotland .. this song is haunting and moves me to tears...

Yes, we (in Svendborg, Denmark) learned this song during english lessons - about 1963 - and I still sing the song playing my guitar - just love it

Sounds like he was a real Scot. Much respect. It really is moving when people have something like this that seems to move not just their own people but everyone who hears it. So much passion and yet sad pride. It's one of my favorite songs by far. I'm glad that even when you didn't share any memories with your grand dad you still shared this one with him, may he rest in peace.

Not the only one man. Same as you I have some very fond and sad memories with this song.

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Me too Lisa. I was born in the States, but have a large Scot ancestry. I have only been lucky enough to make one visit so far, but now that the pandemic is winding down I am certain there will be many more. God has richly blessed you by allowing you to be born in the most beautiful country on Earth, and I don't mean just the physical beauty. The people I met on my first trip were truly salt of the Earth men and women. Can't wait to come back to my ancestral homeland.

Och aye.

Neither can I, yet I'm German🙈

I was born in Jamaica and have no ties to Scottland , music’s great thoughh 💙💙

Well, I'm Asian and I cry listening to Scottish songs.....

Matt, I'm glad you were able to be with your mother at this time. I'm a music therapist and am often with people at end of life. Research tells us that the auditory channel is the only one we can't "turn off". I'm sure she heard it. What a beautiful moment for you to give her.

@@musictherapychoir That's SO reassuring to hear from a music therapist, who must know these things. I choose to believe this. My late husband was a songwriter, and I've seen and read about the effect of his songs on the ill and despairing. A person in a coma came out of it after listening to his music, which she loved. Worth more than diamonds, knowing that. :)x

Sorry for your loss, I lost my friend today also a proud Scotsman, RIP Frank…..

She surely had a peaceful send off, I hope you two will meat again.

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Agreed! I'm in Loch lomond right now and its absolutely captivating

Jón Ásgeir Jónsson seconding that from my flat in Amsterdam :)

littlemissmello thirding that from Belgium ;]

Jón Ásgeir Jónsson And from the USA!

+Jón Ásgeir Jónsson and canada too eh

+Jón Ásgeir Jónsson Same from Germany!

+ZackRToler you should come and visit!it's a beautiful country!

+ZackRToler Same here, been obsessed with Scottish culture as far as I can remember.

+ZackRToler The almighty Roman legions never defeated Scotland, instead Romans died there in embarrassing numbers. That's why there is the Hadrian's wall the Romans built, to fend off the embarrasment. I am a Finn. We Finns really like Scotland.

msumungo To be fair though. They only lost do to how thinly spread they were throughout the continent. The Romans were more technologically advanced and had greater intelligence in strategy. But they were severely outnumbered there.

+msumungo Are you an Ogilvie?!

Have a good time while you're there

slovenia is a sort of sunny version of scotland!

@@waxwing235zcct Hahaha. Thank you. It is in some way but with much more forests and much less sea coast. I visited Scotland this year in August and I had a great time.

Low road? He was executed by the British. His farewell letter to her.

Happy Bank account

Lol random comment

Liam Gilroy i know the felling ma home 2

Im from one of the original 7 Scottish Highland clans..Clan Mackinnon...think what the song does to me...try listening to the words to the song "Scotland the Brave"...if you know the history its inspiring.

+Doug McKinnon My Uncle ( stepuncle ) was a mackinnon too, sadly he passed away last week.

You fae up the hill? I lived in Pappert. :D

I lived in Middleton Street in Alexandria. I left in 1968!

@@XMan-tu4iu oh nice! You were in the Vale then! 😁

A song about a soldier dying for your wedding and anniversary???

@@applesbeenhere a scot on here described it perfectly, we sing it, to tell the English that they can never destroy our culture.

Don't know what else to say, God rest her soul.

I agree 100%..I have always loved this song,but this is by far my favorite rendition of it..everything about it is perfect.

Same

And so who's performing it?

​@@drcomma2001John mcdermit

Slainte. SAOR ERIN SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

Alba gu brath!

im irish and scottish

at least spell the Gaelic correctly cmon

That doesn’t make you Scottish..

Nah, just the Scottish air, best air in the world if may ;)

You won't find any argument from me on that

i climed the cobler with the scouts and that was stunning just stunning i cant imagine the view from ben lomand

+Musa Afridi pfffft tourists, i get my unicorn to take me there, saves my breath for the view ;)

Being sgritheal or torridon have the best views, the highlands simply have no comparators

I knew this song went world wide but WHAT!!! That's really damn far for a song. COME ON SCOTLAND!!!

hahah there are lots of people of scottish heritage down here

Troke Dast That's really quite cool actually

Doesn't really matter where you go on this blue marble spinning through space, you will find Scots.

Yeh my whole family's from there They moved over to Australia in the mod to late 19th century but ever since i was a boy ive yearned to go back to my true home where my heart lays

I'm english, live in Germany but have family in Auckland, was there in 1974, Waiter on The Northern Star, cruise liner.been to Rosyth in Scotland too and yes this song, music and lyrics bring a lump to my throat hearing this in my head for a while

Awesomenes PIPER BUDDIE!!!! I also play in a band. Junior SFU in Vancouver. I play with RMM4.

I have read somewhere, that during Jacobite uprising of 1744, English did following to captured Scots: put them into pairs and tell each pair, that they should decide who of them gets shot and who will be released.

My ex-neighbour owns a whole hill up there so we get invited up to go and play with there dogs and help with there chickens and stuff, worth the 5 hour drive

I actually learned this song first as a guide on the BWCA!

My mum was born in Scotland, but lived here when she was young. All of her side of the family is Scottish, I'm the only English born minus a few that moved to Canada. When I was young, I remember mum singing a few Scottish songs, and I loved how it felt like I was connecting to my ancestors, I agree with you, it is magical.

A good song touches the soul and if you let it weave your soul, but what it'll give you is somewhat different for every person

Preach

Those cultures you name -- they ARE united -- and some of the best on the planet!

I am Scottish but I am also British - proud of our united country!!

My man was too and he was THE BEST man on earth

Free and united Ireland!

We did sing the song as a set piece... It was captive with a baritone voice

I second that.

Och, aye!😉

Someone liked my text, may I know the name of the person please

Beijing?

Ireland?

No probably scotland

QSA Flame how does that work?

CaptainJoshGaming I think Scotland because this song is a Scottish song

+Vincent Amiel same here!! from Italy to Glasgow, and I miss it with all my heart

Vincent Amiel I'm Glaswegian best city in the world

Glasgow isn't really Scotland...

That reminds me of this time I was in a cab in Vegas, and I had a horrible headache from the heat but the cabbie wouldn’t stop talking the whole way to the convention. When I got out and paid the guy, I realized I should have just taken an Uber and saved $10 - but boo on me... anyway, I get to the convention and sign in and saw a guy I knew from Reno... we had a brief convo and I found my seat... turns out that guy was the motivational speaker that my work hired and he gave us his life story and how to overcome struggles. Long story short, after the awards were handed out, I took mine and went back to my seat and got belligerently drunk with a few other co-workers, and made jokes about the management the rest of the night... later that night, our plane was delayed, then rerouted to San Jose... a little wind... well after six hours on the plane, and a sore ass, I was finally home... I went to bed, and woke up the next morning with no headache! You might ask what this has to do with anything, and wonder why I’m saying it... The same way I’m wondering why you’re still reading it

I was born in Australia but lived I. Scotland most of my childhood in Glasgow I moved away and left the most beautiful place in earth so this song brings tears to theeyes

Same here. I like both, this emotional and peacefull version where you just loose yourself dreaming as well as the power version of the young brothers and co.