Runrig - Dance Called America

[@keydemoore]

Always loved their music. Donnie Munro will always be my favorite front runner. His voice is unique.

[@carolinascotsman]

This brings back memories of growing up in the 80's..thanks for sharing

[@davidwilliamson9193]

The best band ever to come from Scotland

[@jamiefoyers2800]

Ah..the old "Barrowlands" bounce!. Good memories. Runrig had a few good tunes with Donnie Munro at the helm, great voice as well.

[@Nickthebassist01]

They had many great tunes, with both Donnie & Bruce

[@malcolmtaylor2601]

@@Nickthebassist01 The greatest band to ever walk this planet - simple as that - and I've followed music since 1956.

[@malkyffc]

I've experienced this song at The Barras If you ever get a chance to see runrig there GO!!!!!!

[@jeremysmith54565]

Have done was very hungover but was fucking awesome!

[@gingercat777]

A thumbs down to this?....must be a brave man of the cloth.

[@Robbyrocklegend]

I love Scotland!God bless Scotland!

[@Mister_G]

F*ck Oasis, this is the reunion *I* want to see.

[@kennymaclaurin3683]

One of my favourites

[@Chrismacleod777]

Brilliant! Wonderful music!

[@ianmacleod6960]

Best song ever.Long live Runrig

[@gabrielcox4816]

Awesome guitar!

[@eddiedonaldson443]

Goodbye Runrig 😞

[@malkyffc]

each time I listen to this it put the hairs up on the back of my neck

[@jeremysmith54565]

Especially when knowing where runrig got its name from the old farming method communal farming rather than what the Highland Clearances least partially sought to reform from more pastoral farming infact even the Countess of Sutherland being against the tenants really en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_rig#/media/File:Runrigs__-geograph.org.uk-__308174.jpg

[@jump8r]

We're going INTERNATIONAL, you have, you did, COME BACK HOME xx

[@thomasheusel6707]

Fantastic!

[@robmarshall58]

listen folk...listen to them well..THIS IS OUR FUTURE....

[@billhenderson3918]

saw this in sheffield 2014

[@joel1111]

The very best

[@connardonnelly9051]

Still can't get over a unionist singing these lyrics.

[@craigpetrie2849]

Connar Donnelly ....as much a Scot as anyone else so why not ,it had more to do with the landowners rather than the constitution of the UK , thousands of people all over the UK endured forced emigration.

[@grimmfandango832]

@@craigpetrie2849 Yes, at various times, very true. But I can't think of England or Wales having anything like the southern or highland clearances in such a calculated way and with such genocidal intention (with the exception of the harrying of the north immediately after 1066) . Scotland had it not in the thousands, but in the tens upon tens of thousands. Along with what would become the ROI and Norway, we were the the 3 main European exporters of people per head in the early 20th century. If our emigration had been at England's level post 1901 we would have 11m people, not 5 million people as we are. If we go back further, to to 1805, we would have had double the 1901 figure, aka 20m plus. True post 1901 it wasn't forced, but again, due to bad governance, the emigration rate was a lot higher than it should have been. Then there was WW1, aka throw the Scot at the German tactics. (1 in 8 UK soldiers were Scots but 1 in 5 who died were Scots). Way to fuck up a countries demography

[@Nickthebassist01]

What about can English person? You can’t change the past, but you can learn from it. Runrig drew attention to a people, a culture, and a language and made people aware of what had happened to those people, that culture, and thus that language. They weren’t trying to change the past and I don’t see how Donnie being a unionist has any real relevance to him singing the lyrics.

[@lizJG-w6y]

Why can't I share it

[@rabbruce8232]

👌🏼

[@TheRuprechtKroenen]

How does a small community survive under the pressure of global tyranny? Like this...

[@AnFithich]

Pure Scottish willpower. And cause we have artists like that to keep the fire and passion and language alive.

[@garyfrew5569]

The only tyranny is Nicole Sturgeon

[@TheRuprechtKroenen]

@@AnFithich Keep the fire burning

[@tangerinedreamer50]

They sing about freedom to bring the Scottish land back to who it belongs to

[@marcmacario-yt3td]

Sad dance...😢

[@ConnarWilson]

Alba gu bràth

[@seanstewart6797]

Runrig will never sit well with a colonial establishment that's content with shortbread, tartan and colonial cannon fodder for a safe political historical narrative, these are a risen people, Eiri Amach nahAlbanach, Runrig Abu.

[@craigmackenzie1809]

sean stewart what utter shite you talk!!!

[@jeremysmith54565]

Except this song going completely against the establishment least appreciate what this song is all about, the nobility evicting the tenants from the land from the 1750s until the 1860s and either side of those decades (but a larger part of within), from the former Run Rig (where the band sort of gets its name from) generally speaking a shared farming system to a pastoral (a sheiling being a roughly constructed hut for pastoring animals, Faileas Air An Airigh meaning Shadow On the Sheiling a song by them) farming system. Rather generally speaking the landlords saw themselves more as commercial than for the people of the land having a right to rent the lands, oh how Robert I would have been turning in his tomb if it was still in existence!