Song of the Week – Loch Lomond
Well, I moved my “recording studio” (the Tascam, some cheap headphones, a microphone and its stand) to the other bedroom. It has much more space.
This is another of the songs I learned in grade school. It is believed to date back to the time of “Bonnie Prince Charlie.” There are some different interpretations of the “low road” versus the “high road” in the song. The one that seems most credible to me is the rather grisly idea that it’s sung by the lover of a traitor. After he is killed his head will be stuck on a pike taken back to London along the “high road” displaying the price of treason. The lover will have to go back the long way, along the “low road.”
Loch Lomond by Glen E Hammer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Not a Bard 