I cant comment on the Gaelic version, but I should have thought that Roddy McMillan's meningis fairly clear. He is singing of a seriesof three bad things that happened in the Highlads over a long period, and combining them into the experience of one mythical person. The first verse refers to Bonnie Prince Charlie calling out the clans to fight for his father the OldPretender. The second refers to the soldiers sent abroad to fight for the British Empire in highland regiments.The third refers tothe people turned out of the houses and off their land in the Clearances.