Jim Reid - I Saw The Wild Geese Flee

[@jimfraser734]

I was a young serviceman and was very far from home when I first heard this. I could have cried. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jimfraser734]

Just beautiful. 👍 Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jamesmoore9915]

Still gives my shivers, his voice is astounding and packed full of emotion

[@dhenderson195961]

Listening to this as I watch a flock of geese flying by, wonderful

[@phaidonnikolaus9841]

I'm sitting right now, listening to this song, sitting by the waters of the River Tay and adding to the level. It's been almost fifty years since I returned and it's as if I never left. I want this played at my funeral, but sung by Jean Redpath. Her voice really does 'turn towards the sea'.

[@AllansStation]

I have fond personal memories of Jim.

[@iainmacantailleir352]

I can't say anything because the song says it all

[@robertclark2522]

Tears, my dad and Jim were pals, I didnt know who Jim was, I'd never heard of him, my dad explained and if he could get Jims music, he'd be buzzing.So got my dad a couple of albums sent to his house in England. Never heard a happier old guy, still dont think he knows who bought they albums.

[@WillieWagglestick]

Aye roarin' greetin' listening to this. Seriously though, this is probably one of the nicest Scottish songs ever written and sung perfectly too. Lovely.

[@dhek64]

Timelessly achingly hauntingly beautiful.

[@RhonaMacLeod]

I love Jim's version of this poignant and beautiful song. Am going to sing it acapella tonight at a Hogmanay Concert at Strathaven's Town Mill Theatre.

[@auldmanhill]

Only ever heard recordings but I met a German lady called Bettina in Spain who had lived in Arbroath. I asked her if she had heard of them and she said that not only had she heard of them, she had actually played accordion with them sometimes. She also said the band had named a tune they composed after her son.

[@simiaocaminharochacaminharocha]

Lindíssima música meus elogios! Beijos em teu coração!...)))

[@badyin]

Beautiful. I've been away too long. New year's resolution which will be kept; it's time I come home.

[@californiadreamin8423]

A great song and great singing.

[@BillDFC]

This song still maks me greet.

[@lizdewars]

Good heavens I remember Bettina..she and her sons stayed with me when she visited Scotland in 1997. Have unfortunately lost contact with her since then..small world eh! Thanks for that..all the best..Liz.

[@georgekallin1]

14 comments and none of them mention the writer of this beautiful song.... Violet Jacob

[@motorcop505]

george macdonald She wrote the words, but Jim Reid wrote the music. He set several of her poems to music.

[@JohnConnor-jh4xp]

She must have been something else to think o' bird and land in that manner!

[@josephineboyd1753]

Absolutely Lovely to listen too ! ❤

[@lizdewars]

The Foundry bar band and latterly An Teallach were legend...both my late fater in law Bob Dewars and late husband Jim Dewars played with them..anyone with fond memories?

[@arthurgreenan8355]

I stumbled upon the Wild Geese /Norland Wind. I understood it as I understand my relatives in Blairgowrie and up the north east coast with their spiritual connection to the land and others who suffered their own "highland clearance in different parts of Scotland. I have much disdain too for those aristocrats who hounded honest folk off their land and robbed them of their source of food, in the Lowl:nds of Scotland, by passing the Inclosure Acts in the Westminster Parliament. "Mans inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourne".

[@chrisjones2625]

Lovely thank you

[@perils6461]

Beautiful.

[@cheerydavie]

A fine tribute to Jim

[@robertbarnett3245]

Thanks muchly for putting in a map of England ... I wouldn't have know where it was otherwise!

[@paulhamilton7350]

An old friend of the Family LEGEND

[@tommymttank]

Aye,I hae problems wi my een leaking when listenin tae Jim, maybe my Angus ancestry has more effect than I thought!

[@BillDFC]

Wonderful.

[@jockreidblog]

am greetin tae every time I play it

[@mickthornley7210]

What a tune

[@duncanyoung3761]

it is a amazing song

[@BillDFC]

Yes, mine too..

[@BillDFC]

There's muckle lyin beyond the Tay that's mair tae me than life.....

[@WillieWagglestick]

Gives me goosebumps every time I listen to this.

[@ijsmale]

Listen tae my ain veersion o this ane!

[@Fairy-door-78-86]

Is there a version of this song without the Scottish words as I'd love to sing it but could never do it justice with my accent :)

[@annagillies6737]

Violet Jacob wrote in Scots. Why would you want to change that? Just sing the Scots, like learning any other song.

[@Fairy-door-78-86]

@@annagillies6737 I know what you mean but I have lived 28 years in France and still have a strong accent.It's such a beautiful song I wouldn't want to put people off it :)