The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2785   Message #983795
Posted By: GUEST,BRIANFLYINGSCOTSMAN69@HOTMAIL.COM
15-Jul-03 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Loch Lomond
Subject: RE: LYR. ?, Loch Lomond, alternate version
15/07/03

To whom it may concern:-
                      The version that i have been singing to myself varies slightly...

             ...You tak the high road and ill tak the low road
                And ill be in Scotland afore ye.
                For me and my true love will ne'er meet again,
                On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

It is a girl lamenting the loss of her lover in war. He's taking the stairway to Heaven and as a result they'll ne'er meet in this life again.