Subject: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Carole K. Date: 30 Mar 97 - 03:02 PM I'd like the title and all the words to that Scottish song, with a famous line that includes "you take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I get (be?) to _______ afore ye" Thanks.-C. |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOCH LOMOND From: John O'Keefe Date: 30 Mar 97 - 05:19 PM Like many tunes coming out of the Celtic tradition the emphasis is on the story. I'm not sure if there are any "true" versions of this song. The name it normally goes by is "Loch Lomond" or "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond." The words, as such, are not as important as the message of the heart coming home again. By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond Where me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond CHORUS: Oh, you take the high road an' I'll take the low road And I'll be in Scotland before ye But trouble is there and mony hearts are sair (sore) On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond We'll meet where we parted in yon shady glen On the steep, steep side o' Ben Lomond When in purple hue the highland hills we view And the moon coming over the gloamin CHORUS: Oh you take... Still fair is the scene but ah how changed Are the hopes that we fondly cherished Like a wat'ry gleam like a morning dream On Culloden's field they hae (have) perished CHORUS: Oh you... The wild flowers spring and the wee birdies sing And in sunshine the waters are sleepin' But the broken heart it kens (knows) nae (no) second spring An' resigned we may be tho' we're greetin' CHORUS: Oh you... I hope you don't find the translations condescending, I just thought they might be a help as well. Oh, and just so you know...Most people don't know or sing those last two verses, they tend to change the song's intent. Nowadays it is sung as a love lament only, but there was a time when it included the JACOBITE theme as well. I'm sure that's much more information than you needed. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: dick greenhaus Date: 30 Mar 97 - 06:33 PM Loch Lomond is, indeed, in the database. Scots, who sometimes have odd ideas about spelling, "tak" the high road; you can find it by searching for [high road] or [low road] or [high road] {and} [low road]. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Tamara tamarad@dolphin.upenn.edu Date: 31 Mar 97 - 10:53 AM The story as I heard it: Two Jacobite soldiers were imprisoned at Carlisle (a castle in the English/Scottish Borders) toward the end of the -- I think -- 1745 rebellion. The next morning, one of the soldiers was to be freed, the other hanged. The condemned man sings of his sweetheart, whom'll he'll never see again, tells the soldier who is to be freed: "You'll take the high road (of the living), and I'll take the low road (of the dead)..." The low road is faster. The Corries do a slow, lyric version of the song which combines the traditional "Loch Lomond" with the verses sung from the sweetheart's point of view (in the database as "Loch Lomond II"). It's absolutely heart-wrenching.
Tamara |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: GUEST,scott/irish swords man Date: 14 Feb 04 - 10:25 PM the famous line ya be thinkin of lasses and lads is "Oh you be takin the high road and i betakin the low road but i'll get to scottland before Ye" |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar Date: 15 Feb 04 - 11:35 AM In about 1958 Morris Blythman recorded the following from a traveller. The hearse took the high road The ambulance took the low road And they met on the banks of Loch Lomand And the groom and the bride Were cremated side by side On the bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond. That's all he got. Anybody know any more? |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOCH LOMOND From: Amos Date: 15 Feb 04 - 12:14 PM By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond Where me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond Oh, you take the high road an' I'll take the low road And I'll be in Scotland before ye But trouble is there and mony hearts are sair (sore) On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond We'll meet where we parted in yon shady glen On the steep, steep side o' Ben Lomond When in purple hue the highland hills we view And the moon coming over the gloamin' Oh, you take... Still fair is the scene but ah how changed Are the hopes that we fondly cherished Like a wat'ry gleam like a morning dream On Culloden's field they hae (have) perished Oh, you... The wild flowers spring and the wee birdies sing And in sunshine the waters are sleepin' But the broken heart it kens (knows) nae (no) second spring An' resigned we may be tho' we're greetin' Oh you... |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 15 Feb 04 - 01:15 PM It is often the case that newcomers manage to find the oldest of many threads on a song, to which they then post information which is available in all the other threads on the subject. Other people, perhaps not noticing the dates that betray the antiquity of the revived thread, then continue the process. This song in particular has been discussed here at great length (see the long list of links above), and with the best will in the world I don't know that it would be terribly productive to go over it all yet again. The myths repeated by earlier contributors have been dealt with elsewhere. Perhaps Ewan has the right idea; we might devote this thread, since it has been brought back from the dead into a world that has moved on without it, to modern parodies, of which there are probably a fair few. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high rd. - Chords? From: GUEST,info@greatersouthbridge.com Date: 15 Mar 04 - 03:15 PM anyone know the chords to this amazing song? |
Subject: Lyr Add: GEORDIE (from Ewan MacColl) From: Roberto Date: 15 Mar 04 - 05:55 PM The line "I'll tak' the high road and ye'll tak' the low" is not only in LOch Lomond..... Geordie Ewan MacColl, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol.2, Folkways FG 3510, 1964 Will ye gang tae the Hielands, my bonnie, bonnie love? Will ye gang tae the Hielands wi' Geordie? I'll tak' the high road and ye'll tak' the low And I'll be in the Hielands afore ye And I would far rather stay on the bonnie banks o' Spey And see a' the fish boaties rowin' Afore I would gang to your high Hieland hills And hear a' your white kye lowin' He hadna been on the high Hieland hills A week but barely three-O Before he was cast into yon prison strang For huntin' o' the deer and the roe-O His lady, she got ward o' it And quickly she made ready And she has rode into Edinburgh toon To plead for the life o' her Geordie O, has he killed or has he robbed Or has he injured ony? No, he's been a-huntin' the king's ain deer And he shall be hangit shortly Will the yellow, yellow gowd buy off my bonnie love? Will the yellow gowd buy off my Geordie? – It's five hunder poonds ye maun pay for his life And ye'll get the hat on your Geordie She's ta'en the kerchie fae aff her heid And she's spread it oot sae bonnie And she's ta'en the hat frae her true love's hand And she's beggit for the life o' her Geordie And some gied her croons and some gied her poonds And some gied her perlins bonnie And the king himsel' gied a hantle o' gowd For to get the hat on her Geordie Then oot and spak' an old Irish laird A bowdy-legged body Said – For me, Gighty's laird had lost his heid If I had but gotten his lady She turned aboot her high horse heid And wow! But she was saucy: The pox be on your Irish face For you never could compare wi' my Geordie First I was lady o' bonnie Auchindoon And then I was lady o' Gartly But now I'm the wife o' the bonnie bog o' Gight And I beggit for the life o' my Geordie |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 15 Mar 04 - 07:00 PM Yes. That has already been pointed out in other, more recent threads than this very old one, and text and tune are in the DT as Gight's Ladye. MacColl got it from Last Leaves, I think. The ascription to William Walker is wrong (see Shuldham-Shaw & Lyle, The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, II, 1983, 549-550). I know it's a lot to ask, but would people look at the other threads before re-posting the same things to this one? Reviving it was pointless in the first place. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 16 Mar 04 - 04:10 AM Lucy Kaplansky does a lovely live "different" ( sexy, even!)version of this song. Thought I'd just mention that. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: GUEST Date: 16 Mar 04 - 10:01 AM Sorry, but to do this song "sexy" just sounds wrong. Lucy Kaplansky should stick to singer songwriter stuff - she murders traditional material. She did an awful job on "Mary and the Soldier". |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Roberto Date: 16 Mar 04 - 11:49 AM Yes, I think it is a lot to ask, once a thread has been revived, to check and maybe read all releted previous threads before posting a reply, a contribution or something like that to the revived thread. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 16 Mar 04 - 01:18 PM I have to strongly disagree with "Guest's" comment that Lucy Kaplansky did an "awlful" job on "Mary and the Soldier". She sang it as herself - with no phoney folkie affectations - which is to be applauded. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Mar 04 - 01:40 PM I can't see the harm, really in the practice Malcolm deprecates. If the same thing gets said again, and different people who haven't heard it before hear it, or say it, is that something to get too worried about? |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 16 Mar 04 - 01:57 PM Threads should always be checked before posting, as Malcolm suggests, otherwise Mudcat is reduced to the level of a chat site, although it is difficult because of the many threads which are not cross-indexed- I have posted redundant material several times because the thread ties are not always obvious, at least to me. In this case, "Gight's Ladye" is not noted at the top of this thread nor in the others on Lomond, and appears in Forum threads as "Geordie." Each one of us should try, however, to housekeep in order to simplify cross-checking and eliminate duplication. Joe Offer has closed off a number of redundant song threads and combined others, but with the volume of material in Mudcat, the task would daunt even the OED staff. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: InOBU Date: 16 Mar 04 - 01:59 PM IF you choose to take the low road...SORCHA DORCHA will be at the HALF KING restaurant and pub, this Wends. Saint Patrick's Day on 23rd street between 10th and 11th Ave. from 7 pm to 10 ... As expected Lorcan Otway on vocals uilleann pipes flute whistle bodhran and the great Jane Kelton on flute whistle and key board, Seanin An Fear on Mandolin, Joe Charupakorn on guitar... the joint is already rumbling, so stay from Give us a drink of water to An Phis Fluich, all yer ol' favs... Cheers, Is mise, le meas, Lorcan Otway |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: KateG Date: 16 Mar 04 - 02:44 PM Hey InOBU, where is this HALF KING restaurant you're promoting so effectively. On the subject of Loch Lomond. I could never understand the last line of the last verse: "but the broken heart it kens(knows) nae(no) second spring an' resigned we may be tho' we're greetin' " until it whacked me upside the head. greetin' is the same as the Swedish "grata" -- to cry or weep. Makes much more sense than saying "hi" |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Com Seangan Date: 16 Mar 04 - 03:06 PM Great stuff and big thanks to all the contributors. While I'm nobody's eejit, I hadn't been aware at all of the Jacobite connection. Gives the whole thing a new (or old) dimension. All the tit bits and views even though sometimes a bit repetitive contribute to the pool of knowledge. Leanaigi oraibh, lads and lassies. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: InOBU Date: 16 Mar 04 - 06:42 PM Thanks KateG... In New York City, and in deference to Com... I will sing a Jacobite song in humble penence! Happy St. Pat's to all... Larry |
Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: GUEST Date: 04 Oct 04 - 02:02 AM just some info. ac/dc did this song at a concert after their lead singer Bon Scott died. He was scottish |
Subject: Lyr Add: LOCH LOMOND (Bruce Michael Baillie) From: GUEST,Baillie Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:40 AM ...Well, see what you think of this version: By yon bonnie banks and yon bonnie braes Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond Where me and my true love were ever wont to go By the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. I well recall the day when my love he marched away, And I followed in the baggage train behind him, Wi' Charlie Stuart's men, oh, we left both hill and glen And we left the bonny loch far behind us. But oh, the road was hard for a poor young lass to bear And the battles that we won they hardly cheered us Till my love he sent me home, never more wi' him to roam To seek the bonny cottage by Loch Lomond, he said, (Chorus) "You take the high road and I'll take the low road And I'll be in Scotland afore ye, And we'll hear the pipes in tune as we dance beneath the moon, By the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond The church bells they rang and the small birds they sang And the rain it poured down on the gloamin' As with many's the highland yell, upon the bloody ground they fell And the musket shots rang out around them (Repeat chorus) Now there's purple in the heather and there's gold among the trees And blue in the sky round Loch Lomond But my heart's black as stone, since I'm left here all alone To watch the silver moon rise in the gloamin' (Repeat chorus) ...And me and my true love will never meet again, By the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond. That version won't have been posted on Mudcat before because I wrote it! Bruce Michael Baillie
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Subject: RE: Lyrics? You take the high road & I'll take From: Geoff the Duck Date: 04 Oct 04 - 04:46 AM I thought AC/DC's singer was a Geordie? Quack! GtD. |
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