Luyện nghe bài hát Loch Lomond

Notes: song is often played jauntily and used as a
representatively Scottish
in
films and games (Lemmings 2 for example)
It deserves better. The is a lament for a lost love

in battle. He will now take the "high road" (in
heaven) while Moira (his love) on the "low road."
They never meet again in this life
but will
some day again
far above the bonnie banks of lomond.

O wither away my bonnie May(which direction) Sae late an' sae far in the gloamin' (so far) (Gloaming = dusk/twilight) The mist gathers grey moorland and brae (hill) O wither sae far are ye roamin'?

O ye'll tak the high an' I'll tak the low I'll be in Scotland afore ye For me and my true love will never meet again By the bonnie bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond

O well may I weep for yestreen in my sleep (yesterday), we bride and bridegroom together. But his arms and his breath were as cold as the death And his heart's blood ran red in the heather

I trusted my ain love last night in the broom (own) (bush) My Donald wha' loves me sae dearly For the morrow he will march for Edinburgh toon (town) Tae fecht for his King and Prince (to fight)

(Chorus)

As dauntless in as tender in love He'd yield ne'er a foor toe the foeman (enemy) But never again frae the field o' the slain (from) Tae his Moira will he come by Loch Lomond

The thistle may bloom, the King hae his ain (have his own) And fond lovers may meet in the gloamin' And me and my love will yet meet again Far above the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond

(Chorus)