THE HIGHLAND WIDOW'S LAMENT SHONA DONALDSON

Shona Anderson singing The Highland Widow's Lament from the excellent cd Pur

[@frankfedi5751]

a cover from my fav film The Wickerman (1973) beautiful!!!

[@user-lk6oj4bu1k]

Beautiful beautiful ❤

[@sheenawellington4811]

A beautiful performance from one of Scotland's finest!x

[@frankfedi5751]

sung by Lesley Mackie (Daisy) in the 1973 version of The Wickerman. She's the schoolgirl who keeps a beetle captive in her desk!

[@triarius]

This one, "Don Mallone", "No Other Name" with Mary Travers... Without words, even if you don't understand so much, like here, it wouldn't be much, but as it is... INCREDIBLE MUSIC!

[@dashcammer4322]

A version of this was in The Wicker Man (1974) in the 94 minute extended cut at least.

[@Erida526]

I’ve listened to this dozens of times and that scene at the end with the Culloden widows searching for their dead still gets me teary

[@1234549084]

Hello Erica thank you for your lovely comments i am you like it

[@daragildea7434]

All songs about Culloden used to make me cry, but I've got over it now. Probably because I don't drink alcohol anymore.

[@armstronggermany2995]

You should have scene at flodden,

[@armstronggermany2995]

I meant, you should have seen the scene at flodden. It changed our history.

[@JosKosmos]

What movie is it from?

[@bernadetteedmond9027]

Beautiful Shona❤

[@benjamindrury5005]

This is the definitive version of the song

[@1234549084]

thank you for your comments Benjamin

[@margaretkerr7920]

Beautiful video!❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@kevinbrown46]

Really, really beautiful. Thank you1

[@1234549084]

Hello Kevin for your lovely comment on Shona's Highland Widow;s Lament Ian

[@kevinbrown46]

My pleasure! -- listening to this superb version of a great Scottish classic.

[@1234549084]

Thank you again Kevin ,yes i love Shona's version of this Ian

[@azamatsafargulov3294]

Lovely song !

[@1234549084]

Thank you for your lovely comment

[@ann-cc5mm]

I miss you Ian..😪R.I.P.❤

[@franceslynn535]

Such a beautiful and pretty song

[@1234549084]

Hello Frances thank you for your lovely comment

[@mecsinger]

This is beautiful!

[@1234549084]

Hello Marie thank you for your lovely comment

[@MacKenziePoet]

Magnificent!

[@luciesnajdrova4673]

beautiful !

[@DavidAGIII]

RIP Sergeant Howie

[@drewaitken9601]

Absolutely lovely Ian.

[@1234549084]

+Drew Aitken Hello Drew thank you for your lovely comments ,just reposted this after a copyright complaint ,but Shona and Paul told me to put it back up

[@drewaitken9601]

+Ian, I understand why they complain in many cases, if people haven't been paid for their work. However sometimes it is because the artist have not the correct attire for the occasion, which in my view isn't important, as it is the music that matters, as there are still some who cannot get away from the kilt and heather image. These various tracks in my view on KZbin etc, are a great advertisement for the artist and it's nice for them to be relaxed whilst performing live on stage at a festival for example in a relaxed attire. A video, such as this one though, it is nice to have the appropriate attire, to enhance the video and the same if it's a live formal event/recording. Well done with this one!

[@1234549084]

Thank you Drew

[@lorenmiller3797]

I believe that this must be the definitive version of this song. Absolutely magnificent! I wish that there were a recording I could listen to without the sound from the movie bleeding through.

[@1234549084]

Hello Loren thank you for yourl your ovely comments ,you can find it on a CD called pur

[@daragildea7434]

Could well be. Other versions I've heard are shorter, with fewer verses.

[@jacobsgranddaughter]

❤️❤️♥️

[@daragildea7434]

I've heard 3 or 4 versions of this song, and they're all very different. Different words as well as music.

[@SandsMemphis]

That's a folk song for you.

[@m_b_lmackenzie4510]

Sublime u.u

[@1234549084]

Hello Antonio thank you for your lovely comment

[@m_b_lmackenzie4510]

Ian Anderson The song and the clips very well done. Love it the whole thing. I am s bagpiper and history enthusiast and this music takes me to another place. Is sad but Im happy to express that sadness, difficult to explain. Congrats.

[@1234549084]

Thank you Antonio or your kind comments, looking your name, your ancestors may have part of that history Ian

[@simondolantis]

What movies are the pictures taken from? I saw Rob Roy I think but what else?

[@1234549084]

Hello simomdolantis ,yes there's a bit of Rob Roy in there ,A Cathrine Cookson movie , A bbc docmentry about Culloden and a Bonnie Prince Charlie movie with David Niven, and the cattle and sheep i just trawled the net till i found what i was looking for

[@triarius]

Absolutely splendid ... but Donald- or Anders-?

[@1234549084]

Good morning triarius Shona's name was Donaldson before she was married , now Anderson wife of Paul Anderson Fiddler

[@triarius]

@@1234549084 Fęks, as we say in Polish. ;-)

[@daragildea7434]

@@triarius "Feck" means fuck in Irish English.

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

@@daragildea7434 He is spelling 'thanks' with Polish letters

[@franceslynn535]

The poor woman lost her man in the battle of culloden now she is homeless and penniless

[@franceslynn535]

What a beautiful and so sad

[@sistergrimace1567]

Probably 300 years old and no one knows who wrote it

[@1234549084]

Good morning thank you for your comments, must have been just after culoden

[@1234549084]

@@user-ef4gf7rr9r Hello it was Robert Burns that collected it

[@triarius]

Is that 'Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie!' mere 'lilting' or does it mean something?

[@Erida526]

triarius just lilting as far as I can tell

[@triarius]

@@Erida526 Thanx!

[@kathleensimpson942]

Its a lament and means .... Alas, Alas! (husband, home, hope -all is lost after defeat at Culloden ) -Hauntingly sung by Shona .

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

It should be spelled 'Ochòn, ochòn, a chrìdhe' it means 'Alas, alas, my heart'

[@gillsimpson4387]

@@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh I think 'ochron, ochron, ochrie' is what Burns probably heard when he collected this song but having no Gaelic just wrote what he thought he heard. The song is thought to be from around 1715 and to have been originally written about the Massacre at Glencoe.

[@frankfedi5751]

her name is Shona Donaldson not Anderson

[@1234549084]

MARRIED TO pAUL aNDERSON!!!

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

2:45 Ochòn, ochòn, a Dhòmhnaill, ò, Ochòn, ochòn, a chridhe

[@c.tuttle3921]

Whoops wrong ian anderson

[@abrhamgebeyehu933]

Oh I am come to the low Countrie, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Without a penny in my purse, To buy a meal to me. It was na sae in the Highland hills, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Nae woman in the Country wide, Sae happy was as me. For there I had a score o'kye, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Feeding on yon hill sae high, And giving milk to me. For there I had three score o'yowes, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Skipping on yon bonie knowes, And casting woo' to me. I was the happiest of a' the Clan, Sair, sair, may I repine; For Donald was the bravest man, And Donald he was mine. Till Charlie Stewart cam at last, Sae far to set us free; My Donald's arm was needed then, For Scotland and for me. Their waefu' fate what need I tell, Right to the wrang did yield; My Donald and his Country fell, Upon Culloden field. Oh I am come to the low Countrie, Ochon, Ochon, Ochrie! Nae woman in the warld wide, Sae wretched now as me.