For the love of Loch Lomond...

We celebrated Robbie Burns night on January 25. My friend piped in the Haggis, did the traditional address to it and we read poetry, drank wine and scotch (and actually ate the Haggis - and enjoyed it!)

I miss Scotland - here's a little piece that always takes me back, along with a photo of Loch Lomond I took this past summer.... sigh...

The Bonnie Bonnie Banks, of Loch Lomond (music)


By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes,
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond.

Chorus
O ye’ll tak’ the high road and I’ll tak’ the low road,
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye.
But me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond.

‘Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen,
On the steep, steep side o’ Ben Lomond.
Where in deep purple hue, the hieland 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 waefu’ may cease from their greeting.
Chorus

The wild flowers spring, and the wee birds sing
And in sun-shine the waters, are sleepin’
But the broken heart, a kens nae second spring
And re-sign'd we may be, tho' we're greetin’
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