There will be many other threads on this. "Loch Lomond" was first published (undated) by the Edinburgh broadside printer Sanderson in the early 19th century, and was almost certainly written by Lady John Scott aka Alicia Spottiswoode. She never owned up to it and never hinted at any hidden meaning, but it has no link to Culloden except in the heads of romanticizing fantasists. The tune is a variant of an 18th century Lowland Scottish love song, "Kind Robin lo'es me". "Red Is the Rise" is a better song, anyway.
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