I've climbed it twice, ive been to the Distillery, I've walked through the grounds of Balmoral, My Grandad was a piper for the Seaforth Highlanders, I was born in 1980 when they sung this, I'm a Cooper and make whisky casks, I was brought up listening to the Corries listening to the pipes and listening to older relatives taking about serving their country and being proud of Scotland and it brave amazing people. This brings a tear to my eye. Scotland I Love you 🥃
@ConnarWilson Жыл бұрын
Scottish royalty. God bless The Corries.
@rosko437 жыл бұрын
The best folk duo in history. Their harmonizing has never been matched.
@Ryan-ix2zx Жыл бұрын
Harry & Meghan ?
@Hava7442 жыл бұрын
Love the corries . I was devastated when Roy died.
@an-dagda6276 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my grandfather who served most of his life in the military. He is still alive; I always wanted tae follow in his footsteps he was truly disappointed and said this and I will never forget it... "I served so you don't have tae! Yea won't be! But ill train yea tae be the fiercest our bloodline has ever seen..." I never enlisted and he wasn't lying. The words of a True Warrior and gentleman. I am truly lucky he is still kicking.
@henrycondy63289 жыл бұрын
Listened to them when they sang in Broxburn West Lothian , in the Regal, I was in the alley outside, I was 10, to wee to go to a show, saw them in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh when I grew up, Roy you were taken to soon, No one new of your illness, I remember when they announced it you had passed away, that night on Scotland Today's 6o'clock news total shock. You are missed RIP
@daisychainsssssssss4 жыл бұрын
I am so sorry for your loss i didn't know Roy but new Nicky. i would like to talk to you Please xx
@daisychainsssssssss4 жыл бұрын
can you please get on touch Henry Condy xx
@murdochmclennan35104 жыл бұрын
@@daisychainsssssssss Do you have any photographs of Nicky? I ask because a friend would like to see them. Please email me at murdoch1111@earthlink.net. By the way, I am a woman.
@Monterey2am15 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. I wish I still felt the same way about Scotland now, as I did back then.
@annemilne100 Жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard this sang as well by anyone else the corries were a legend
@vazzoler15 жыл бұрын
I love Scotland and everything about her. I really feel I belong there.....someday I'll live there..... Scotland forever!!!! Corries are great!!
@ponkkaa15 жыл бұрын
I miss Scotland. And I've neer even been there.
@dedet69003 жыл бұрын
I have ached, deep in my soul for Scotland. I always intended to go, but 2 rounds of severe cancer ate up my funds. Perhaps in my next life, I will be born there.
@marileelockwood54082 жыл бұрын
I miss it too, it is a deep longing….
@colinlee29136 жыл бұрын
my dads favourite song havent heard it for years.so proud that i am scottish great men
@geoffreyallen60406 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful couple, only wished I had discovered them years ago.
@Bellg3 жыл бұрын
I miss it and I haven't evev ever seen it in my life
@gaconnochie10 жыл бұрын
"and from the title of the abovementioned satire, he evidently saw himself as English" Actually Byron himself wrote that he was born a half Scot but raised a whole one. His family moved to England when he inherited the title when he was aged 10 and he was seemingly relentlessly teased because of his Scottish accent. He only spent about 12 years or so in England before starting his travels - only returning for a short spell. In a letter to his fellow poet and author Sir Walter Scott he wrote "I would be delighted to see you again - which is more than I can say for England or (with a few exceptions) anything that it contains - but my heart warms to the tartan or anything of Scotland which reminds me of Aberdeen and of other parts not so far from the Highlands as that town"
@joea.99698 жыл бұрын
Quite a majestic song. Makes sense that it was written by someone who knew both England and Scotland.
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
Joe A.: It's a majestic song only if it's sung correctly. The Corries do well with the first stanza and miserably on the others. Dark Lochnagar is NOT a ballad, but they sing it as if it is.
@moraggrant98565 жыл бұрын
@@murdochmclennan3510 I wonder why you listen to the Corries. Is it to criticise only?
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
@@moraggrant9856 No. I enjoy their singing. I DO NOT LIKE what they do to Byron's poem.
@jmunro-graham15683 жыл бұрын
Shades of the dead! Have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale? Surely the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind o’er his own Highland vale. Round Lochnagar while the stormy mist gathers, Winter presides in his cold icy car. Clouds there encircle the forms of my fathers; They dwell in the tempests of dark Lochnagar
@gaconnochie13 жыл бұрын
@flygweilo Byron who was seemingly teased in England as a boy because of his Scots accent actually stated that he was "born a half Scot and raised a full one". Also in a letter to Sir Walter Scott he actually wrote "I would be delighted to see you again which is far more than I shall ever feel for England or (with a few exceptions of kith and kin) anything that it contains - but my heart warms to the tartan or to anything of Scotland which reminds me of Aberdeen and other parts" etc etc
@BelgarionScotland13 жыл бұрын
How can three people dislike this? Baffling!!!
@johnjohnstone51333 жыл бұрын
Sir they must English 🏴🏴🏴. God bless Scotland 🏴
@callan59033 жыл бұрын
@@johnjohnstone5133 Byron must be one of them then 😁
@BillDFC16 жыл бұрын
I am an East coaster born and bred,but no-where can compare with the magnificent landscapes of the North-West. From Argyll through West Inverness-shire,Wester Ross and Sutherland. It pulls me back to a land I love the best.
@chicken69075 Жыл бұрын
Know my home is near when I coming down the hill towards the Cromarty Bridge and dingwall, Ben wyvis on my left and fyrish looking on ross shire
@captainpugwash12112 жыл бұрын
cant fault any of their songs and both singers have their own qualities
@moominpic16 жыл бұрын
Byron's mother was Scottish, from Aberdeen, and this was why he had the name 'Gordon'. He was also raised for several years in Scotland, attending school in Aberdeen.
@kaizersozei2 жыл бұрын
This song reminds me of my Da . The best of the best
@biliboy161712 жыл бұрын
Love the bit that says England thy beauties are tame and domestic compared to Dark Lochnagar. Was a coach driver and once had an English Tour director tell people we were approaching Loch Nagar. Lochnagar is a mountain.
@annebetenson790611 жыл бұрын
One of the most evocative songs I know. Discovered this many years ago in my teens. Brings it all back.
@pianoman197415 жыл бұрын
Ill-starred now the brave, did no vision foreboding, Tell you that fate had forsaken our cause? Yet were you destined to die at Culloden, Though victory crowned not your fall with applause, Yet were you happy in death's earthly slumber , To sleep wi' your clan in the caves of Braemar, The pibroch resounds to the piper's loud numbers, Your deeds to the echoes of wild Lochnagar. Brave Caledonia, dear are thy mountains I sigh for the valley o' dark Lochnagar Need i say any more?
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
pianoman1974: It's "death's earthy slumber"!
@Arkybark12 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Every day or two I have a new favorite. Together they were unbeatable at anything they sang. There are certain songs and types of songs in which either Roy or Ronnie's solo impresses me particularly!
@lidiaziolkowski39654 жыл бұрын
Got that right
@wullies1115 жыл бұрын
It was more than 20 years since i saw this, just as good as ever, thanks for sharing.
@1977Rainbo12 жыл бұрын
There is just something so hauntingly beautiful about this song......
@BillDFC15 жыл бұрын
Byron's mother was from Aberdeenshire and he never forgot his heritage.
@papanomidokoro15 жыл бұрын
The lyrics are from a poem by Lord Byron. I didn't know he was raised in Scotland, and apparently always identified with Brave Caledonia.
@Arkybark12 жыл бұрын
This gem is making me reconsider my absolutist opinion that Loch Lomond is Roy's best performance on KZbin. It's pretty close.
@lidiaziolkowski39654 жыл бұрын
Anything by Roy(Poppa to me)is an absolute gem! But then again that's my opinion
@TheDdonmac227 жыл бұрын
lord byron .what would he think of scotland today.My ancestors are warriors to the present day.iam ex army .Scotland needs to stand alone.
@stewartneilson95347 жыл бұрын
Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear this.
@garythomson54078 жыл бұрын
Home sick every time I hear this
@GUSFERON17 жыл бұрын
Great video. I climbed "Dark Lochnagar" , nearly twenty years ago and this song brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting
@johan006614 жыл бұрын
I dont even know them and I Miss them. nice thank you
@tgh24314 жыл бұрын
Vote with your heart .
@kristinelawrie10 жыл бұрын
He may of been a despoiler of untouched women, a drunkard a wastrel in many ways a womaniser and countless other things, he had to leave the uk in exile be it self imposed, but you have to admit what a way with words Byron had, a revolutionary in writing at the time n correct me if i'm wrong a friend of Mary Shelley during his life in Europe before he died there. Amazing beautiful poem made into a song.
@joea.99697 жыл бұрын
Kristine Lawrie well...nobody's perfect lol
@jedpumblechook21704 жыл бұрын
If you love this poem, you shouldn't accept all the ridiculous lies told about him in the past 200 years, just because his politics enraged his class and together with his absurd wife, forced him to leave his home. He was none of those things, but the tabloid version of him seems to have stuck. His life is worth studying but his poetry even more so.
@briankiernansmith24336 жыл бұрын
probably their best, a classic.
@avemaria1097 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely godlike, God bless the corries, the true voices of scotland 🙏 🏴
@lauraopper257111 жыл бұрын
I like this version of the song by the Corries the best because I can understand all the words. Some day I hope to visit the place they are singing of ......
@BillDFC17 жыл бұрын
words written by Lord Byron whose mother was from Aberdeenshire
@wgl196413 жыл бұрын
the jewel in the corries crown
@Joeflem1111 жыл бұрын
Awesome..Immortal lord Byron Lyrics...Corries do it better than anyone..
@moragmacgregor679220 күн бұрын
In honor of, in memory of Bill Conly.
@infidelita9 жыл бұрын
Written by Lord Byron.
@forsythbill112 жыл бұрын
Whatever his nationality he wrote this about the hauntingly beautiful Lochnagar and the dying of an ancient culture,such a place really belongs to no one people come and go but these places remain.A good artist may come from a certain country a great one is universal.
@cd169012 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY!!! Couldn't agree more!
@paulinesmith64498 жыл бұрын
Fantastic folk singers. Listened to them as a kid. New year just isn't the same nowadays. Scottish and British.
@joea.99698 жыл бұрын
Fleet Foxes are goog for a newish folk band
@johnmelvin78924 жыл бұрын
Scot by nationality and heritage, British if you want to use that name for the island, European because the islands are of the coast of Europe, northern hemisphian lol, Earthling, milky wayan, you can keep on going. Think I'll stick to being a Scot. The rest are superfluous.
@northscot98623 жыл бұрын
You can only be one or the other, you cannot be both. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
@mattsmalmberg701711 ай бұрын
Very! Nice! The Corries!
@joejohnstone430610 жыл бұрын
VOTE YES NOTHING LESS
@stanleyjohnstone28676 жыл бұрын
Joe Johnstone it’s funny how the yes vote attaches itself to everything that is good for scotland when any fiscal determination proves it to be false dream.... hey go takes all sorts....
@northscot98623 жыл бұрын
@@stanleyjohnstone2867 WE WILL SEE. AN AW YOU TRAITORS WHERE WILL YE GO. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
@Arkybark7 ай бұрын
From a poem by Lord Byron
@cindysnow8025 жыл бұрын
Wow...lyrics and vocals.
@BillDFC15 жыл бұрын
I don't miss it 'cause I never leave!!
@ianharrywebb17 жыл бұрын
Lord Byron was born in London to a Scottish mother. Brought up in Aberdeen in his early days. He inherited his title from an uncle. Sassa english nach person' Highlander's like to call lowlanders english people, as an insult IE Sassanach.
@baillie677 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic.
@pianoman197413 жыл бұрын
@Grouter12 beautifullly put mate. hopefully there are enough of us that still think we can rise. if we can, then lets do it.
@BillDFC15 жыл бұрын
I love the weather.
@invernowie16 жыл бұрын
fantastic
@hafpipe17 жыл бұрын
A Sasanach (as it is spelt) is an Enlishman. An Albanach is a Scotsman in Gaelic. Nothing racist about it, that is just what they are called.
@TheIslandhome14 жыл бұрын
this was sung at the parc de prince, landsdowne road, the arms park and even twickenham when the Scots won, if you were there you know what it means...
@robsargent413 жыл бұрын
@Grouter12 Everyone has a right to be proud of their heritage, but I'm not sure that it is directly related to a video of the song called Lochnagar, the words of wich were written as a poem by Lord Byron. Can't we all just enjoy the song without bringing politics into it?
@gavinlove126111 жыл бұрын
Wow !
@AgathosDaimon211 жыл бұрын
Linda música e lindos cantores...
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
FROM GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Beautiful music and beautiful singers
@fergiewergie17 жыл бұрын
My favourite folk song from Alba :)
@Arkybark10 жыл бұрын
I've seen that, too, but don't know what is correct, just that it seems pretty well established that Roy didn't write the music.
@Grifflaw13 жыл бұрын
@Cradh actually that was written by "Lord" Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) of Ireland where he was born
@billymack138711 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Sond makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up
@allyballycat13 жыл бұрын
brill, where wd us north of perth teuchters be without folk posting the likes of the corries, fab
@dagwood38715 жыл бұрын
I LOVE this song! Is there a CD of theirs that has this song on it?
@raquelcorrea23303 жыл бұрын
People are posting from years ago!
@qantas4012 жыл бұрын
try "Piper's loud numbers" or "Pipers' loud numbers" whatever is correct, but either way, if you punctuate that sentence, its correct. its one piper playing many tunes
@rockinbillyboy17 жыл бұрын
Can anyone please tell me the title of one of the Corrie's songs? This may be too vague but,...it sounds similar to the slow start of this song, There is line which goes, "like a torrent down the mountain, swept the avalanche of steel" Please help.
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
rokinbillyboy It's "Weep Ye By Atholl"
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
Lord Byron's entire poem: LACHIN Y GAIR 1. Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me the rocks, where the snow-flake reposes, Though still they are sacred to freedom and love: Yet, Caledonia, belov'd are thy mountains, Round their white summits though elements war; Though cataracts foam 'stead of smooth-flowing fountains, I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr. 2. Ah! there my young footsteps in infancy, wander'd: My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid; On chieftains, long perish'd, my memory ponder'd, As daily I strode through the pine-cover'd glade; I sought not my home, till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star; For fancy was cheer'd, by traditional story, Disclos'd by the natives of dark Loch na Garr. 3. "Shades of the dead! have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale?" Surely, the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind, o'er his own Highland vale! Round Loch na Garr, while the stormy mist gathers, Winter presides in his cold icy car: Clouds, there, encircle the forms of my Fathers; They dwell in the tempests of dark Loch na Garr. 4. "Ill starr'd, though brave, did no visions foreboding Tell you that fate had forsaken your cause?" Ah! were you destined to die at Culloden, Victory crown'd not your fall with applause: Still were you happy, in death's earthy slumber, You rest with your clan, in the caves of Braemar; The Pibroch resounds, to the piper's loud number, Your deeds, on the echoes of dark Loch na Garr. 5. Years have roll'd on, Loch na Garr, since I left you, Years must elapse, ere I tread you again: Nature of verdure and flowers has bereft you, Yet still are you dearer than Albion's plain: England! thy beauties are tame and domestic, To one who has rov'd on the mountains afar: Oh! for the crags that are wild and majestic, The steep, frowning glories of dark Loch na Garr.
@margomacgonegal62563 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@marileelockwood54082 жыл бұрын
Yes, thankyou!😊✨
@EMesaros15 жыл бұрын
the piper: I understand it perfectly. You have to stretch your imagination a little--be what my husband once called "imaginatory!" And that with a straight face, by golly!
@gaconnochie10 жыл бұрын
"Just that it seems pretty well established that Roy didn't write the music." The Corries song book has the tune as traditional. So you are right Roy didn't write it
@mariemillar79759 жыл бұрын
Google
@aljcamp10 жыл бұрын
I found reference to Sir H R Bishop???
@Arkybark10 жыл бұрын
Roy didn't write this one, I believe. On one of several videos of this on YT someone posted about who wrote it. Would take some searching to find it again.
@pikacccsu12 жыл бұрын
jiiiiiiiiiiiha
@rkingphoto17 жыл бұрын
Great song, written by an Englishman about Scotland. Sassenach = Englishman BTW, from the gaelic for Saxon. It's not about nationalism, it's about the beauty of Scotland and is a beautiful song itself.
@johnmelvin78924 жыл бұрын
He saw himself as a Scot. End of story.
@jrtomlin18054 жыл бұрын
And old comment but I will point out as others have that Lord Byron never considered himself English and even stated that he did not like England. As he put it, he was born a half Scot but raised a whole one.
@johnmelvin4604 Жыл бұрын
His mother was a Scot.
@gaconnochie13 жыл бұрын
@gaconnochie Mind after saying that I like your comment about what is half Scottish or half English. My wife has one Scottish parent and one English parent but she regards herself as both English and Scottish. That is as much a Scot or English person as anyone else. Not half of anything :-)
@jrtomlin18054 жыл бұрын
Lord Byron did not agree since he called himself born half Scot, whatever your wife may think herself.
@PunkRotter6917 жыл бұрын
Sots Wha hey!! We are the people!!
@lowellirish16 жыл бұрын
MY GOSH!! Re: Piper84- First of all...For all you "adults" out there..Have you even bothered to go to her site? She's only 15 years old!! What does she know? For that matter...what do YOU know? Not enough to "take it from the source!" ROFLMAO!
@aljcamp10 жыл бұрын
did Roy Williamson put the Byron words to music?
@lidiaziolkowski39654 жыл бұрын
No he didnt
@aljcamp4 жыл бұрын
@@lidiaziolkowski3965 The words were written by Lord Byron
@gaconnochie13 жыл бұрын
@flygweilo You make a good point but it works the same for your original statement claiming he saw himself as English because of the title of one satire. Likewise we can pick one work of Burns to show he was this and another work to show he was that. We might also take his comment that he was raised a whole Scot with a pinch of salt too. Byron was half Scottish and half English. Those are the facts which can't really be disputed.
@jedpumblechook21704 жыл бұрын
if he hadn't inherited the title, he would have continued to be raised in Aberdeen by his mother - but would still have written this poem!
@jrtomlin18054 жыл бұрын
The fact is that he also spent his most impressionable years in Scotland and did not find a friendly welcome in England. His letter to Sir Walter Scott clearly showed his lack of fondness for England which he said he never wished to see again.
@user-ht4gb2fw4e12 жыл бұрын
Hey, tell everyone this. I found a poem by Burn's that defend's the Jacobite cause! All Scot's must find the poem>>>"(On Seeing The Royal Palace At Stirling In Ruin's)"
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
acerb PLEASE LEARN HOW TO USE APOSTROPHES CORRECTLY!
@tgh24313 жыл бұрын
12 years since there a comment disgrace
@Georgiansilver113 жыл бұрын
George Gordon Noel Byron was his full name.. and although descended of Scottish Nobility from long in his past he was definitely English!
@johnmelvin4604 Жыл бұрын
His mother was a Scot.
@moominpic16 жыл бұрын
I really can't believe anyone would make such a comment about the west of Scotland. Does that include Ayrshire and Burns country?
@wallace50000116 жыл бұрын
Hi lowellirish , No need to be goshed. I would suggest that a fifteen year old who "does not know " needs to take more care . Anyone who comes on this site needs to realise that this is a resource used by all sorts . Having read some of the nonsense posted on this site , can a moderator remove her post , for her protection , if she is only 15 , please ?
@SeaDog33713 жыл бұрын
3 people must have taken nagar for a racial slur...
@Birsey8916 жыл бұрын
The word is prejudice, and how were the Irish prejudice against Scottish gaelic music, Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic are practically the same language. I'm from Fife, but i'd definitely say Glasgow is more Scottish than Edinburgh.
@Georgiansilver113 жыл бұрын
Full name 'George Gordon Noel Byron' Descended from Scottish Nobility but definitely ENGLISH .
@johnmelvin4604 Жыл бұрын
His mother was a Scot
@TheSpiritof4513 жыл бұрын
@tam19681 HI AGAIN i will sum it up it refers to the sad demise of our proud scottish national identity our diversity from GB and MOST IMPORTANTLY THE VAGUE HOPE OF FREEDOM and to para quote "does not give us the right to live freely" as indepent free scots-people free from that tag british that i aint and yes a lot of scots followed that disgusting crown esp the nobles THE RANK IS BUT THE GUINNES STAMP prayers for independance
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
TheSpiritof45: THE RANK IS BUT THE GUINEA'S STAMP.
@murdochmclennan35105 жыл бұрын
THEY RUIN BYRON'S WORDS.
@lidiaziolkowski39654 жыл бұрын
Whatcha mean?
@murdochmclennan35102 жыл бұрын
@@lidiaziolkowski3965 Dark Lochnagar is not a ballad; it is a beautiful song that should be sung in a serious manner.
@Bigmussie110 жыл бұрын
Shades of the dead! Have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale? Surely the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind o’er his own Highland vale. Round Lochnagar while the stormy mist gathers, Winter presides in his cold icy car. Clouds there encircle the forms of my fathers; They dwell in the tempests of dark Lochnagar.