The song lyrics are older than Andrew Lang version. He was the first to give it the Title: Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond 1746, but there is written record of the song lyrics existing since 1841 and it was associated with the Jacobites no source has been able to give the exact author. From wikipedia: 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 'low road' of death back to Scotland. It is one of many poems and songs that emerged from Jacobite political culture in Scotland".
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Just wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
The song lyrics are older than Andrew Lang version. He was the first to give it the Title: Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond 1746, but there is written record of the song lyrics existing since 1841 and it was associated with the Jacobites no source has been able to give the exact author.
From wikipedia:
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 'low road' of death back to Scotland. It is one of many poems and songs that emerged from Jacobite political culture in Scotland".
Are there Scottish folk songs sung in Scottish?
Scots* not Scottish.
Thought so thank you
There must be. If so I haven't seen any pass by yet.