Me and My True Love Will Never Meet Again on the Bonnie
View of the Loch Lomond area, December 2005
"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or "Loch Lomond" for short, is a Scottish vocal (Roud No. 9598).[one] [2] The song prominently features Loch Lomond, the largest Scottish loch, located between the council areas of Due west Dunbartonshire, Stirling and Argyll and Bute. In Scots, "bonnie" means "attractive", "love", or "dearest".[three]
Lyrics [edit]
By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes,
Where the sun shines vivid on Loch Lomond,
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond.
Chorus:
O ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland a'fore ye,
Merely me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond.
'Twas there that nosotros parted, in yon shady glen,
On the steep, steep side o' Ben Lomond,
Where in soft purple hue, the highland hills we view,
And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
Chorus
The wee birdies sing and the wildflowers spring,
And in sunshine the waters are sleeping.
But the broken heart it kens nae second bound once again,
Though the waeful may cease frae their grieving.
Chorus
Estimation [edit]
Historian Murray G. H. Pittock writes that the song "is a Jacobite adaptation of an eighteenth-century erotic song, with the lover dying for his king, and taking only the 'depression road' of decease dorsum to Scotland."[four] It is one of many poems and songs that emerged from Jacobite political culture in Scotland.[four]
Andrew Lang [edit]
About 1876, the Scottish poet and folklorist Andrew Lang wrote a verse form based on the song titled "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond".[5] [6] The title sometimes has the date "1746" appended[seven] [8]—the yr of the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie'southward rebellion and the hanging of some of his captured supporters. Lang's poem begins:
There's an ending o' the dance, and fair Morag's safe in France,
And the Clans they hae paid the lawing,
Morag—cracking ane in Gaelic—referred to Bonnie Prince Charlie, who fled to France after his forces were defeated.[9] Lawing means reckoning in Scots. The poem continues:
And the wuddy has her own, and nosotros twa are left alane,
Gratis o' Carlisle gaol in the dawing.
Wuddy means hangman's rope, according to Lang's own notes on the poem; dawing is dawn.[10] The poem continues with the song's well-known chorus, and so explains why the narrator and his true dear will never run across once more:
For my love's eye restriction in twa, when she kenned the Cause'due south fa',
And she sleeps where in that location'southward never nane shall waken
The poem's narrator vows to take violent revenge on the English:
While there'south heather on the hill shall my vengeance ne'er exist still,
While a bush hides the glint o' a gun, lad;
Wi' the men o' Sergeant Môr shall I work to pay the score,
Till I wither on the wuddy in the sun, lad!
"Sergeant Môr" is John Du Cameron, a supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie who continued fighting as an outlaw until he was hanged in 1753.[10]
Irish variant [edit]
The Irish variant of the song is called "Reddish Is the Rose" and is sung with the aforementioned melody only different (although similarly themed) lyrics.[xi] It was popularized by Irish folk musician Tommy Makem. Even though many people mistakenly believe that Makem wrote "Red Is the Rose", it is a traditional Irish folk song.[12]
Arrangements and recordings [edit]
"Loch Lomond" has been arranged and recorded by many composers and performers over the years, in several genres ranging from traditional Scottish folk to barbershop to rock and curl.[2]
Classical music [edit]
Ralph Vaughan Williams made an arrangement for baritone solo and unaccompanied male choir in 1921. It has been recorded several times, notably by the tenor Ian Partridge and the London Madrigal Singers for EMI in 1970.[13]
Pop music [edit]
Scottish folk-rock band Runrig accept made the vocal their unofficial canticle, endmost their concerts with a rendition for over 25 years. Ii verses of the song and the chorus are at present a favourite anthem of the supporters of the Scotland rugby team and also of the Tartan Army, the supporters of the Scotland football team, and as such are fixtures including at the respective teams' home games at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh and Hampden Park in Glasgow. One re-recorded version in 2007 for BBC Children in Demand that featured both Runrig and the Tartan Army peaked at number nine on the U.k. singles chart and number one in Scotland.[fourteen] [15] In April 2022, their recording was certified silver by the British Phonographic Manufacture (BPI) for sales and streams exceeding 200,000 units.[16] Possibly taking a cue from Runrig, and sung at a faster marching step, the original sad complaining is enthusiastically bellowed out past thousands of Scots to celebrate a score and to spur on the team.[17]
Jazz [edit]
The Jazz Discography, an online index of studio recordings, live recordings, and circulate transcriptions of jazz – as of May 22, 2019 – lists 106 recordings of "Loch Lomond" and ane recording of "Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond".
A notable big band version of "Loch Lomond", arranged by Claude Thornhill, was recorded in a live performance on January 16, 1938, past the Benny Goodman and His Orchestra on the album, The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, on January 16, 1938, featuring Martha Tilton on vocals (Columbia SL 160).
Jazz vocaliser Maxine Sullivan, for whom it was a career-defining striking, recorded it at to the lowest degree 14 times:
- Her showtime on August half-dozen, 1937, with Claude Thornhill (piano), Frankie Newton (trumpet), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Pete Brown (alto sax), Baby Russin (tenor sax), John Kirby (bass), and O'Neil Spencer (drums) (matrix 21472-ane; Vocalion-OKeh 364); and
- Her last, in a live functioning at the Fujitsu-Concord Jazz Festival in Tokyo, on September 28, 1986, with the Scott Hamilton Quintet. It was her second to concluding recording.[18] She died 6 months subsequently, on April seven, 1987.
TV and film [edit]
In Our Gang Follies of 1938, an American brusk musical film by Hal Roach, Annabelle Logan sings a rendition of "Loch Lomond" at the local talent evidence.[19]
In the 1945 Sherlock Holmes film, Pursuit to Algiers, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) sings a rendition of "Loch Lomond" accompanied past Sheila Woodbury (Marjorie Riordan) on the piano.
In the 1955 Disney blithe classic Lady and the Tramp, one of its characters, Jock, a Scottish terrier, renders his own version of "The Attractive Banks Of Loch Lomond" when collecting his bones "in the dorsum yard".
The song is heard in the 1963 Disney picture The Three Lives of Thomasina.
A recording of a Scotsman singing the vocal in captivity during the Kickoff World War featured in the 2007 BBC documentary How the Edwardians Spoke.[20]
It is heard in Ups and Downs as Wakko and Dr. Scratchansniff ride the elevator.[ citation needed ]
It is too heard in Wakko's Wish.
Information technology is sung by the bandage during a pub scene in A Castle for Christmas.
In the American Tv series The Simpsons, Groundskeeper Willy whistles the tune in the episode "Lard of the Trip the light fantastic toe".
In the Hal Roach short comedy motion-picture show Tit for Tat, Stan Laurel sings a verse of this vocal after Oliver Hardy declares in a verbal altercation with his neighbour that he will take the "high route" and walk away.
References [edit]
- ^ Song Melodies of Scotland
- ^ a b Fuld, James Jeffrey (1966). The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Pop, and Folk. Crown. pp. 336 & 337. OCLC 637942931.
- ^ "Dictionars o the Scots Leid". Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ a b Murray G. H. Pittock, Verse and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 136–137.
- ^ "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" see too; from The Poetical Works of Andrew Lang, ed. Mrs. Lang, four vols. (London: Longmans, Greenish & Co., 1923): I, 55–56
- ^ Andrew Lang (1844-1912) -- The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
- ^ Poems of Andrew Lang: THE BONNIE BANKS O' LOCH LOMOND
- ^ Lang & Philipp 2000, p. 235. sfn error: no target: CITEREFLangPhilipp2000 (help)
- ^ Am Baile - The Songs and Hymns of the Scottish Highlands. Function II Song v
- ^ a b RPO - Andrew Lang : The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond Archived 2009-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ruddy is the Rose". Jennifer Tyson. Retrieved three August 2013.
- ^ Raymond Crooke (12 January 2009). "690. Red is the Rose (Traditional Irish)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 3 Baronial 2013.
- ^ "Loch Lomond (Volkslieder (Folksongs), ready by (Ralph Vaughan Williams)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)".
- ^ "Official Singles Nautical chart Top 100 18 Nov 2007 - 24 November 2007". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100 eighteen November 2007 - 24 November 2007". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "British single certifications – Runrig/The Tartan Regular army – Loch Lomond". British Phonographic Manufacture. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ TV or radio broadcasts of whatsoever Scotland home game at Murrayfield or Hampden Park from 2017, and possibly earlier
- ^ "Menstruation Sweetly, Sweet Rhythm: The Maxine Sullivan Story". By Jan Souther (pseudonym of Rev. Thomas Francis Carten, C.S.C., Alumni Chaplin, Kings College; born 1942), The Sunday Voice (magazine of the Citizens' Voice). June xv, 2008, p. D6 (accessible via Newspapers.com (subscription required))
- ^ Demoss, Robert (9 Nov 2008). "The Lucky Corner: Our Gang Follies of 1938". Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ How the Edwardians Spoke (Idiot box Movie 2007) - IMDb, six May 2007, retrieved 23 April 2021
External links [edit]
- Song Histories by Robert Ford (1846–1905), William Hodge & Company (1900). OCLC 3432602.
- Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland (new and improved ed.), by Robert Ford (1846–1905), Alexander Gardner (1899). OCLC 557365131, 639624272, 213497090
- Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland by Robert Ford (1846–1905), Alexander Gardner (1904). OCLC 156697200, 619932308.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Banks_o%27_Loch_Lomond
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