I was there... midsummer night, the sun barely set, and fireworks over loch lommand.... I was 16 and I will never forget the gig of my life... we danced until we couldn't dance no more and then we danced and sang our hearts out some more x
Donnie Munro was one of the best singers in the world in his hey day, while this is one of Runrig’s best known songs his performances of Gaelic ballads are hauntingly beautiful.
It’s a mixture of Scots dialect and Gaelic so you would have a hard time with the lyrics. Give their anthemic song “Alba” a try (there is a version on TH-cam with subtitles in English which makes it easy to understand what they’re singing about.
I live about 10 minutes drive from Loch Lomond and visit it very often. This is very passionate song in Scotland by a very passionate band. Has been played at the end of most of the wedding i have been to at the end and the dancefloor is packed
Proud Scot 🏴 love this song also this is the only version of this song that matters yet I always see people react to other versions by people who aren’t even Scottish. Thank you for this ❤️
If this was your introduction to Runrig you are in for an adventure. Just about every album I loop through every day. Some of my fav songs: Going Home, The Cutter, Stomping Ground, Empty Glens, Protect & Survive
Happy St Andrews day everyone around the world from myself in Clydebank Scotland. And @bxkid7 thank you for everything you do to promote the culture of Scotland to your viewers around the world. I hugely appreciate your enthusiasm for all things Scottish.
I am English, moved to Scotland in the late 70s and came back to England in the 80s, the Scottish put the English to shame when it comes to passion for their homeland.
Highly recommended you make a point of attending a Scottish wedding during your lifetime, where this song finishes off the evening with EVERYONE on the dance floor. Happy St Andrew's day Kid.
At Scottish weddings, when this is played we don't dance we form a circle where we sing and move in unison. You absolutely need to experience it, most folk by the end of the night when this is played are pished (drunk) patriotism and emotions running high and there is a lot of love in the room.
I mean...one major point of this video is that they were literally on the banks of Loch Lomond in Balloch as they performed. It is a lovely song. Has quite a sad meaning behind it though. And don't worry. Most of us don't know all the words either 😂
The song is about 200 or even 300 years old. Runrig, just did their version of it. Every kid or person in Scotland grows up with this song. The original, not the Runrig version
I've had a busy shitty day, so nice to finally sit down and watch this. Goosebumps every time. I live across the River Clyde from Balloch, and been there a few times, Loch Lomond is absolutely beautiful. Please can you watch Red Hot Chilli Pipers doing Flower of Scotland next? It's the only logical way to go from here lol. Get the blood pumping, waken up that part of our dna that turns us into mad c**ts when we hear the bagpipes play our national anthem 😂👌🏻💛 Oh aye - happy St Andrews day everybody 🏴💙🤍💙🤍
This song is accredited to a Highland clansman of Clan Macfarlane, Jacobite prisoner of the English (following the failed rebellion of 1745). He is imprisoned in a hulk on the banks of the Tyne in N.E. England. The navy used to beach their old wooden warships, when they were of no more use, on the banks of river estuaries, at high tide. Initially a use would be found for them (in this case as a prison ship). They remained beached there until they fell apart. In Celtic myth, the dead can move from place to place beneath the ground (the Low Road) while the living move (of course) above ground (the High Road). The song is a lament. In it, the prisoner knows that death is close and is singing his farewells to his true-love, promising to meet her one last time, on the Banks of Loch Lomond, in a place where they used to meet. Yeah, great performance, I was there all those years ago - one of the fifty thousand who attended. I don't suppose you've ever heard of them, partially because of an early BBC decision to limit their airplay due to their nationalist/Scottish lyrics. Keyboard player is currently a member of parliament for the SNP at Westminster. Didn't stop them though, they had a long and successful career and retired only recently.
Fantastic reaction video as always :) Going to Balloch was always a great dayout when you were a kid during the Easter or Summer holidays. You would travel on the train or bus and when you got there? You spent all day there; with the family, walking around the nature park, visiting the castle, or even going on the boat that takes you around the loch, until it was time to leave to go back to the train station to get the last train home. Lots of fun childhood memories going there.
Great at any sporting event whe the national team plays murryfield (rugby) hampden (football/soccer) the stadium actually shakes like a earthquake is hitting
Hi from Bonnie Scotland,this song is over 120 years old,the song is about death and life,high road takes you to heaven,low road your still travelling in life😁🎶🎶🎶🎶
Happy St Andrew's Day Bxkid7. Do you have any connections to Scotland? Love how you enjoy lots of the Scottish comedy and music too now. Hoping to do another visit to NY next year when it's safe to do so. I love your country too. Love your reactions!!
One of the stories about this song I've heard, During the jacobite rebellion, two Scottish soldiers are caught by the English, one old, the other young, the English decide to execute one, and the other is to return to Scotland to tell everyone what will happen if they're captured, the old soldier tells the young one he'll die for the cause, and the young one has to return to his lover, taking the high road, but not to worry, as he will be home in Scotland before him, taking the low road to his loch lomond grave, his final resting place, his homeland 🏴🏴
@John I've been told that it was believed that when you died your spirit would go straight home to homeland and as such would be home before the other person had travelled home
Runrig shows were essentially a monster emotional experience for Scots people with this song being their show closer for decades. The song's words were written in the 18th century by Robert Burns, the tune is an old traditional one too.
They sing in Scottish Gaelic, at 4:50 - Ho, ho mo leannan Ho mo leannan bhoidheach which translates as Oh, my wee bairn, (Oh my little child) Oh my wee bonny bairn (oh my little, beautiful child) Leannan could also be used as sweetheart. Here's roughly how it's pronouced hoe hoe moe lahn anne hoe hoe moe lahn anne woy och Great to see a review like this of a song all of us Scots grew up singing and smiling to.
@@GazaBHOY hud this fae a family member up in the Scottish isles ma man, dinny ken if it’s translated differently in diff areas but to each their own opinion
Gabhaidh mi an rathad àrd agus gabhaidh tu an rathad ìosal. I think you will love this, it's the Scottish Gaelic for You'll tak the high road and I'll tak the low road.
Check out rise and fall from Edinburgh castle it won't disappoint the background to the song is the soldiers that have fallen were it not for there sacrifice we could not have the freedom we enjoy
The story of this song is quite sad, it is about a Scottish clansman who fought in the Scottish wars of independence in the 1700s who was captured by the English army and sentenced to death for sedition. Before he was executed he asked for permission to write a final farewell letter to his young wife of which the lyrics of the song are taken. I am from the Isle of Skye and the reference to the high road and the low road in the letter is an ancient Scottish belief I heard from my grandmother that the dead spirit travel beneath the earth 'the low road' while the living above 'the high road'. In his letter he is saying even though they will never meet again in the flesh if she goes to the banks of Loch Lomond his spirit will be their waiting for her.
For anybody interested this song is written about a soldier remembering his sweetheart before he gets executed by the ENGLISH This is the song that ends all Scottish weddings and parties lol
This was written in Scottish War Prisoners in Prison in England. The Lines, "You'll Take the High Road" Means "you'll be hung." "I'll take the Low Road" means, "I'll die of Typhus in Jail." Reply
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I was there... midsummer night, the sun barely set, and fireworks over loch lommand.... I was 16 and I will never forget the gig of my life... we danced until we couldn't dance no more and then we danced and sang our hearts out some more x
The end song of every Scottish wedding or party,if you don't leave the dance floor with a busted toe or ankle you ain't doing it right 😀😀
Facts! 😀
hahahaha they would have to carry me cuz of my crappy moves lol.
bxkid7 it's a really simple dance just it gets faster and wilder as it goes on
every single one!!!!
Paul Sands not quite but near enough
I was there. Superb day with a superb group. Donnie Munro one of the best voices ive ever heard live. Stunning. 🏴🏴
Donnie Munro was one of the best singers in the world in his hey day, while this is one of Runrig’s best known songs his performances of Gaelic ballads are hauntingly beautiful.
You got that right mate, Donnie is still going strong & his shows are great.🏴👍
It’s a mixture of Scots dialect and Gaelic so you would have a hard time with the lyrics. Give their anthemic song “Alba” a try (there is a version on TH-cam with subtitles in English which makes it easy to understand what they’re singing about.
I live about 10 minutes drive from Loch Lomond and visit it very often. This is very passionate song in Scotland by a very passionate band. Has been played at the end of most of the wedding i have been to at the end and the dancefloor is packed
Goosebumps proud to be Scottish……”Scottish not British”🏴🏴🏴🏴
Another runrig song worth a listen
" going home " 👍🏴
Not to be confused with the Mark Knopfier piece of music of the same name th-cam.com/video/DfXUyQsmXRk/w-d-xo.html
SKYE!!!! As well haha
goosebumps every time 🏴 alba gu bràth
Saor alba.
Two yrs too late, this is history now, thank F I got to their last 2nd to last show in Herning in DK - they were fanF'ingtastic!!
Makes my wee Scottish heart burst with pride ❤alba gu brath 🏴
Literally from the Banks of Loch Lomond - Latha fèill Anndrais sona dhuibh 😎
Proud Scot 🏴 love this song also this is the only version of this song that matters yet I always see people react to other versions by people who aren’t even Scottish. Thank you for this ❤️
my pleasure! nichole it was great listening to and watching :0
This is the version. Someone “borrowed my cd with this as the beginning “.
Been boating on Loch Lomond . Even more beautiful than the song suggests. Which is difficult to believe! 👍👍😎
going to take my time and look at some photos of the area I know it wont do the justice but hopefully one day I see it in person
@@bxkid7 It's stunning, I especially love Luss after a wee lunch at Duck Bay Marina.
@@janeyk72 I went flying down Loch Lomond on a speed boat a couple of years ago during a hail storm very painful 😂
@@kebabzx Ouch!
If this was your introduction to Runrig you are in for an adventure. Just about every album I loop through every day. Some of my fav songs: Going Home, The Cutter, Stomping Ground, Empty Glens, Protect & Survive
Happy St Andrews day everyone around the world from myself in Clydebank Scotland. And @bxkid7 thank you for everything you do to promote the culture of Scotland to your viewers around the world. I hugely appreciate your enthusiasm for all things Scottish.
my pleasure! hope it was a good one and here's to starting december woo!
I am English, moved to Scotland in the late 70s and came back to England in the 80s, the Scottish put the English to shame when it comes to passion for their homeland.
Taking the low Road is a reference to being 6 foot under I.e. dead... his pal takes the high road as in lived through the battle.
I got the goose bumps with this one. Been binge watching your rab nesbit reactions xx ❤️❤️
i'll tell you this thank you for watching
Highly recommended you make a point of attending a Scottish wedding during your lifetime, where this song finishes off the evening with EVERYONE on the dance floor. Happy St Andrew's day Kid.
At Scottish weddings, when this is played we don't dance we form a circle where we sing and move in unison. You absolutely need to experience it, most folk by the end of the night when this is played are pished (drunk) patriotism and emotions running high and there is a lot of love in the room.
Or anothers auld lang syne
I live about 30 minutes from Loch Lomond and it is beautiful. Happy St Andrew's Day to you too, kid! 🏴
used to live a couple of towns away from here, but about 20 minutes on bus! been to this park lots of times as a teenager to hang out with friends!
I mean...one major point of this video is that they were literally on the banks of Loch Lomond in Balloch as they performed. It is a lovely song. Has quite a sad meaning behind it though. And don't worry. Most of us don't know all the words either 😂
Nice one Bro. Happy St Andrew's day to all Scots where ever they may be, be happy :)
likewise bro be well and safe my brother and thank you for being you bro!
Thanks for the sentiments, right back at ye ✌🏻😁💛
@@Kazza_8240 you legend u i see u ;)
@@bxkid7 👀
Glad im Scottish will always be Scottish 🏴⚔️🏴
I adore this song! It makes me cry and it makes me very proud to be Scottish!
The song is about 200 or even 300 years old. Runrig, just did their version of it. Every kid or person in Scotland grows up with this song. The original, not the Runrig version
I was there,one of the best days of my life.
Aww yer wee face watching that looks like you really enjoyed it we have adopted you here in Scotland now❤❤
I've had a busy shitty day, so nice to finally sit down and watch this. Goosebumps every time. I live across the River Clyde from Balloch, and been there a few times, Loch Lomond is absolutely beautiful. Please can you watch Red Hot Chilli Pipers doing Flower of Scotland next? It's the only logical way to go from here lol. Get the blood pumping, waken up that part of our dna that turns us into mad c**ts when we hear the bagpipes play our national anthem 😂👌🏻💛
Oh aye - happy St Andrews day everybody 🏴💙🤍💙🤍
I was there, best gig ever.
Funny thing about this is i live like 10 to 15 mins away from loch lomond haha and basically next to balloch
insane!
Runrig have so many great songs. Bit bias being Scottish, but one of the greatest bands of all time
I’m a McFarlane through my Grandmother. From the Bonnie Bonnie banks of Loch Lomond itself!
This song is accredited to a Highland clansman of Clan Macfarlane, Jacobite prisoner of the English (following the failed rebellion of 1745). He is imprisoned in a hulk on the banks of the Tyne in N.E. England. The navy used to beach their old wooden warships, when they were of no more use, on the banks of river estuaries, at high tide. Initially a use would be found for them (in this case as a prison ship). They remained beached there until they fell apart. In Celtic myth, the dead can move from place to place beneath the ground (the Low Road) while the living move (of course) above ground (the High Road). The song is a lament. In it, the prisoner knows that death is close and is singing his farewells to his true-love, promising to meet her one last time, on the Banks of Loch Lomond, in a place where they used to meet.
Yeah, great performance, I was there all those years ago - one of the fifty thousand who attended. I don't suppose you've ever heard of them, partially because of an early BBC decision to limit their airplay due to their nationalist/Scottish lyrics. Keyboard player is currently a member of parliament for the SNP at Westminster. Didn't stop them though, they had a long and successful career and retired only recently.
Pure celtic passion 💪
Fantastic reaction video as always :)
Going to Balloch was always a great dayout when you were a kid during the Easter or Summer holidays.
You would travel on the train or bus and when you got there? You spent all day there; with the family, walking around the nature park, visiting the castle, or even going on the boat that takes you around the loch, until it was time to leave to go back to the train station to get the last train home.
Lots of fun childhood memories going there.
damn i would have loved this as a kid. even now this sounds very awesome bro!
The best song to get a crowd going..
Happy St. Andrew's Day Kid and the whole Wolfpack. Having a wee dram along with this one.
To all Scottish people could be national anthem
Proud to be a Scot
Best nights of my life were always at Runrig concerts oh to go back when Donnie was with the band pure heaven
Brilliant!!!
There is no song that makes a scottish pub bounce more than this one
BXKid you are a honourable Scot.
Songs to bounce along wi.. 90s teen @ a runrig concert.. first one wiout adult supervision 😂
Just friends.. bloody brilliant 👏
Sláinte Mháth 🏴🥃
Great at any sporting event whe the national team plays murryfield (rugby) hampden (football/soccer) the stadium actually shakes like a earthquake is hitting
Hi from Bonnie Scotland,this song is over 120 years old,the song is about death and life,high road takes you to heaven,low road your still travelling in life😁🎶🎶🎶🎶
Nope! Guess again.
My home town BAAYYBEEE !!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴
let's go!!!! i hope to one day visit the loch :) and just travel in general.
Happy St Andrew's Day Bxkid7. Do you have any connections to Scotland? Love how you enjoy lots of the Scottish comedy and music too now. Hoping to do another visit to NY next year when it's safe to do so. I love your country too. Love your reactions!!
No connections to scotland as in any family members but just the best community on TH-cam =).
One of the stories about this song I've heard,
During the jacobite rebellion, two Scottish soldiers are caught by the English, one old, the other young, the English decide to execute one, and the other is to return to Scotland to tell everyone what will happen if they're captured, the old soldier tells the young one he'll die for the cause, and the young one has to return to his lover, taking the high road, but not to worry, as he will be home in Scotland before him, taking the low road to his loch lomond grave, his final resting place, his homeland 🏴🏴
@John I've been told that it was believed that when you died your spirit would go straight home to homeland and as such would be home before the other person had travelled home
@@Westcountrynordic that would make sense, with the story I'd heard, 👍🏴
Played everytime at Scotstoun or Murryfield when some from the home team socores a try
I was there! What a show!
Your are as good as Scottish buddy. Your welcome anytime. 🍻🏴🥃
thanks fam! hope one to go its a huge goal of mines :)
I was at this concert. Fab day.
Me too...it was amazing!
Check out Skye live by Runrig
This is occasionally sung at football games, and the singer has been present a few times too
You should also watch healer in your heart from the same show
Y favourite Scottish group
Runrig shows were essentially a monster emotional experience for Scots people with this song being their show closer for decades. The song's words were written in the 18th century by Robert Burns, the tune is an old traditional one too.
Nobody knows who wrote the lyrics to the song. There's no connection to Burns.
Nothing to do with Burns!
Play Worker for the Wind.
They sing in Scottish Gaelic, at 4:50 -
Ho, ho mo leannan Ho mo leannan bhoidheach
which translates as
Oh, my wee bairn, (Oh my little child)
Oh my wee bonny bairn (oh my little, beautiful child)
Leannan could also be used as sweetheart.
Here's roughly how it's pronouced
hoe hoe moe lahn anne
hoe hoe moe lahn anne woy och
Great to see a review like this of a song all of us Scots grew up singing and smiling to.
No sorry mo leannan translates to my love and mo leannan bhoidheach translates to my sweetheart
@@GazaBHOY hud this fae a family member up in the Scottish isles ma man, dinny ken if it’s translated differently in diff areas but to each their own opinion
Gabhaidh mi an rathad àrd agus gabhaidh tu an rathad ìosal. I think you will love this, it's the Scottish Gaelic for You'll tak the high road and I'll tak the low road.
Love your navid moves there kid lol 👏🏼👏🏼
navid has showed me the way LOL!
bxkid7 😂😂👌🏼
Check out rise and fall from Edinburgh castle it won't disappoint the background to the song is the soldiers that have fallen were it not for there sacrifice we could not have the freedom we enjoy
Alba gu brath!!!
You should try their song titled “The Cutter” one of their best song they ever sung
The story of this song is quite sad, it is about a Scottish clansman who fought in the Scottish wars of independence in the 1700s who was captured by the English army and sentenced to death for sedition. Before he was executed he asked for permission to write a final farewell letter to his young wife of which the lyrics of the song are taken. I am from the Isle of Skye and the reference to the high road and the low road in the letter is an ancient Scottish belief I heard from my grandmother that the dead spirit travel beneath the earth 'the low road' while the living above 'the high road'. In his letter he is saying even though they will never meet again in the flesh if she goes to the banks of Loch Lomond his spirit will be their waiting for her.
Good video i like this song.
People proud of their country,play
The accordion band( beat the drum)
America u have nothing like this maybe u can dream
Yup Wedding song
Your reaction to letter from America x pweese 😊
For anybody interested this song is written about a soldier remembering his sweetheart before he gets executed by the ENGLISH
This is the song that ends all Scottish weddings and parties lol
Sgoinneal ❤️
Gaelic part:-
Ho, ho mo leannan
Ho mo leannan bhoidheach X 8
Try ocean road live in loch ness
Slàinte mhath 😉 🍺
Tapadh leat.🍻
five min drive from my house
This was written in Scottish War Prisoners in Prison in England. The Lines, "You'll Take the High Road" Means "you'll be hung." "I'll take the Low Road" means, "I'll die of Typhus in Jail."
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No that's not what it means at all. Why do numpties invent nonsense to try and make themselves look clever?
Naethin' lik fit it means. Damn lowlanders!
Do you have Scottish blood in you, as you seem to be very interested in Scottish culture?
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TWO BAWBAGS dislike;
Ella Roberts' version of this song is infinitely better than this, imo. Could you react to that too?