 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Banks_o%27_Loch_Lomond By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond Where me and my true love will ne-er meet again (alternate: Where me and my true love were ever lak/wont to gae) On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomon'. Chorus: O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and I'll tak' the low road And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye For me and my true love will ne-er meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomon'. ‘Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen On the steep, steep sides o’ Ben Lomon' Where in (soft) purple hue, the hielan hills we view And the moon comin’ out in the gloamin’. Chorus The wee birdies sing and the wild flowers spring And in sunshine the waters are sleeping But the broken heart, it kens nae second spring again Tho’ the waeful may cease frae their greetin'. (alternate: Tho' the world knows not how we are grieving) ZT： Interpretation There are many theories about the meaning of the song. One interpretation is that it is attributed to a Jacobite Highlander who was captured after the 1745 rising. The English played games with the Jacobites, and said that one of them could live and one would die. This is sung by the one who was sentenced to die, the low road referred to being the passage to the underworld. Some believe that this version is written to a lover who lived near the loch. Another interpretation is that the song is sung by the lover of a captured rebel set to be executed in London following a show trial. The heads of the executed rebels were then set upon pikes and exhibited in all of the towns between London and Glasgow in a procession along the "high road" (the most important road), while the relatives of the rebels walked back along the "low road" (the ordinary road travelled by peasants and commoners). It captures some of the romantic spirit of the lost cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie.[5]
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