The Proclaimers - Letter From America (Official Video)

Official video of The Proclaimers performing Letter From America from the album This Is The Story.
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[@yutehube4468]

How original can a song be. Timeless.

[@OliviaCyrus-v4c]

Look at the Rail Track ???I have sailed and WORKED North America and enjoyed my time at Portland, Maine, Nova Scotia and Quebec City- Thank you 💐❤

[@maggieirvine1807]

As a North lanarkshire girl who saw my brother and dad both lose their jobs when the Ravenscraig was shut down … this song is very emotive and powerful .

[@johneeeemarry34]

Ravenscraig employed twice as many workers than needed. It’s hardly surprising it shut down. It was a fairly new facility when it had to be demolished. What a waste of tax payers money.

[@finbarrphelan1261]

100%

[@gingerbreadman9933]

Mon the shire

[@lindasemple4687]

Wouldn’t have shut down Ravenscraig if they’d supported the Miners. But they didn’t. They drove past picket lines waving their pay packets at starving miners and laughed at them. Ask your dad about that. Tell we were asking for him. Ask him if he’s proud.

[@maggieirvine1807]

I would love to ask my dad lots of things but he died just after the Craig closed of an industrial related cancer . An ex miner himself we gave every extra penny we could to the miners when they were on strike . If you are from North Lanarkshire you have seen the devastation that the de-industrialisation of that area has wreaked . This was Thatcher and Thatcher alone .you are spiteful but also completely wrong .Divide and conquer ? Thatcher would have been proud of you .

[@christiaanjellesma1851]

A real power track

[@TheDucatibarber]

Fantastic 👏🏼

[@mikeosborn3906]

Love it...saw them in Doncaster on Saturday they still got it brilliant...

[@helenbolderstone2533]

Saw them in Southend this evening.

[@redrum4100]

Radio DJs always play 500 miles whenever The Proclaimers are on, as though this superior song never existed.

[@stephenbeardwood1640]

really great song it will still be great years from now

[@charlottelowe1172]

Just pure brilliant.

[@edwardhaggarty365]

Fantastic.

[@christaselig6735]

I just love the Scots.

[@annerobinson1783]

Sends shivers up the spine, as one with Scottish ancestry. Wonder what that little girl is doing now. Shame about Sturgeon

[@scotte9524]

Benny Harvey RIP

[@jallenwa19]

Take a looooooooooooooooooook

[@davewinst1]

These two are like an AI version of the kray twins.

[@Weberaaron]

0:19

[@modoc1888]

As you get older you realise how great this song really is. Quality.

[@tonycostanzo4276]

They were brilliant in harmonizing each other

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Sean GJ O'Brien, aye... so true!

[@rebeccam7326]

This song is almost as old as me lol

[@HendrikNBG]

it is gorgeous and great from the release on !!!

[@geo-s-8530]

aye yer no joking

[@ntinamorris]

Lovely Scottish accent. Lovely place and people. Scotland is the best. Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷

[@calumiainmacdonald17]

Greetings from Scotland!

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Greetings from America 🙋

[@kerrydevlin]

Greetings from Scotland 😃 wish we had your weather!

[@Deadbolt75]

Its shite being scottish

[@bernadettereilly1646]

My home village mentioned in song was brought up in Linwood Scotland thought no 1 knew it existed unless your were from there or paisley lol in my defense I was only 8 when it came out

[@forgottenpalace4472]

At 43 I'm just now appreciating this song. I'm originally from Texas but have been living in Manchester, England for the past 24 years. Last week me and my boyfriend did a motorbike trip around Scotland camping and enjoying the coast. I decided to put on The Proclaimers and this song came on at some point and I fell in love with it. Pure Quality. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Caphiasas-sf6ct]

Texas to Manchester, why ?

[@forgottenpalace4472]

@@Caphiasas-sf6ct 😝

[@Caphiasas-sf6ct]

@@forgottenpalace4472 as you fleeing justice ?

[@Caphiasas-sf6ct]

@@forgottenpalace4472 since you've been here have you rid yourself of that america disease religion ?

[@forgottenpalace4472]

@@Caphiasas-sf6ct Just enjoying the weather.

[@sebastianbeaumont6783]

A great song about the Highland Clearances and the (much later) collapse of modern industries. Easily their best song...

[@NenaMataHari]

Totally agree.

[@stuartmack7658]

It was directly inspired by news at the time of a skills drain among nurses working in Scotland, as many were leaving their home towns and NHS careers to take up offers of better pay and working conditions in the US and Canada. Obviously it ties in with the history of the clearances and certainly the final verse is direct political commentary aimed at the Thatcher era which had closed major manufacturing industries in towns like Methil, Linwood, Irvine etc. Some of those communities still haven't recovered to this day, rating high on the social deprivation index and lacking any outside investment.

[@Calum_1940]

It is a great song, but total bollocks connecting the reasons for the Highland Clearances with the deindustrialisation of Scotland.

[@maddoxmia]

It's good but it's no sunshine on leith is it ?

[@johnkennethwiseman5460]

A drunk Andrew Strong singing this on a stage at an Irish wedding. Brilliant

[@nmiller601]

My great-great grandfather arrived in Nova Scotia in 1883 from Dunfermline Scotland. The family started with coal mining and have since done very well here in Canada. We've kept many Scottish traditions strong in the family for many generations. Nova Scotia identifies quite a bit with Scotland. This song makes me think of their story, since it would seem forward to write such distant relatives now. I repeated the scenario, albeit on a smaller scale, in my own lifetime moving on from Nova Scotia to Ontario for work,

[@beetojuice618]

doesnt nova scotia mean new scotland?🤔😅🤷‍♂️

[@nmiller601]

@@beetojuice618 Aye. It does

[@alesypalsy]

lovely to hear it, my mum was born in England, west Sussex, her mum and auntie was from Hamilton and I was so lucky to have been able to visit these places since she departed , such a wonderful place especially the highlands

[@chiptunechannel]

Dunfermline Here 😀 Any idea what she did or where she stayed?

[@Amp661]

Proof that The Proclaimers are far from "one hit wonders". This song is amazing!

[@tomburke9955]

It's the great arrangement that's the key to this song. The Proclaimers point of difference is their ability to sing with a full on Scottish accent rather than in an entirely benign, industry standard, US one. Song is OK as a piece of work.

[@captainkenzie6873]

Who said they were?

[@Amp661]

@@captainkenzie6873 on the Edinburgh news national survey. It literally says these guys are one hit wonders.

[@freddythecat3203]

@@tomburke9955 I agree, most singers lose any accents when they sign, if you listen to this they sing in scottish. And its the orchestration that carries the backing instrumentation. Other than that they were a pair of lefty SNP supporters, in serious need of a good dentist.

[@zuluwarrior1648]

Nah matey two hit wonders.

[@joelruiz8022]

Im Mexican and I got goosebumps when I hear this piece of art, just sorry I didnt discovery it earlier. It's just perfect.

[@Dave_61]

Saw them live the other night, and these guys are the real fuckin deal!!! They absolutely tore the fuckin roof off the place!!!!! And this song sounded FUCKIN AMAZING live!!! 🔥 Hands down the best live act I've ever seen!!!! Love them!!!!!

[@miranda7598]

Seeing them sat 24 June at Queens Park x

[@jackthomas247]

Proper job ❤

[@LeeMitchellAcoustic]

A song about immigration from Scotland to USA, and sad reminiscence of all those places never to be seen again...

[@Namaste1001]

Forced immigration I might add. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

[@RicTic66]

Forced by Scottish landlords who valued sheep and grouse over their peasants. Even the English didn't do this to their own. The Scottish gentry saw highlanders as bothersome folk who had over populated the land and brought little or nothing of value to it.

[@NeglectedField]

Consider how poignant that is when you remember back in the real old days, letter was the only means of communication - lucky if your letter even got there. No nipping back on the plane for Christmas, definitely no email or Skype. If you decided things were untenable in your homeland and chanced it on a ship to the Americas, it was bye forever, pretty much.

[@willneverforgets3341]

Correct! Kick out people to change them for sheep, and deer for the posh to go hunting on weekends. Sooo sad.

[@rjjcms1]

Working in a company mailroom today made me think of letter songs like Return to Sender and Please Mr Postman,but then I saw a letter addressed to someone in Bathgate who had moved away,and instantly thought about this song.

[@troytempest290]

Still pulls at my heart all these years later. “We should have held you We should have told you But you know our sense of timing We always wait too long” The emptiness of these words burns my soul.

[@kevinprior3549]

Where's your WASPS uniform lol

[@patriciathewisher2315]

My grandmother got a letter from America in 1916 from her father in Philadelphia. Wishing her a happy marriage and making clear they were unlikely to meet again. They didn’t. She didn’t get back to America until she was 46 and her youngest child of the seven she had was seven. I can’t imagine that pain and loss. That youngest child died just five months ago. He was my father. How lucky was I?

[@BadHorsie1]

​@@4legsgood well, it is possible

[@libralaw7359]

Very lucky. So sorry for the loss of your Dad.

[@niallcarton5982]

I'm Irish lived in Scotland for years and the Scots were shocked we knew this song 🤣 love it

[@Tammc09]

The Commitments taught me the Irish love to belt this song lmao

[@hemantashrestha]

now imagine people from Nepal knows this song as well :D

[@miamha]

Hink it's mair tae dae wi the fact yous huv hunners ae yir ain great music that it's a pleasant surprise yees gie a leuk in tae wir ain sangs about the hings we thole fur bein Scots.

[@mrj3473]

Always thought this was their best song. Thought 500 miles was massively overplayed while you rarely hear this one.

[@fly89]

i love Im on my way..

[@watcherwlc53]

i loved both songs

[@mvl6827]

It’s their best song because it was produced by nobody less than Gerry Rafferty... His influence is obvious throughout.

[@rich4050]

My favorite proclaimers song is what makes you cry I could listen to that song 3 times a day and never gets old and sunshine on leith.

[@pyeltd.5457]

It's on Now 80s a lot. Letters from America

[@BubbaZanetti6666]

Love it, emotionally charged song that you can’t stay still too. Truly love our country, I’ve seen a few And Scotland is the most beautiful one I know and I’m proud to say it’s home, here in the highlands.

[@vinaymulukutla358]

You are awesome. The way you talk about Scotland.

[@esmereldaskysurfer]

As someone who emigrated to the USA from the UK, i freaking love this song. I loved it when i was a kid and i love it even more now.

[@annething5046]

This made me cry. I am Irish and emigrated to Australia in the late 1960s as a child. I remember all the letters. Airmail. Waiting to get one from Ireland. Them waiting for ours. The awful sense of loss. Wonderful stuff.

[@scifispaceman1557]

You are always welcome back home

[@jgdooley2003]

A letter from America has a deep meaning in the West of Ireland because they were accompanied by sums of money to help the home families survive in straitened economic conditions. Usually a family would pool their money and get the eldest child across the water to the US. This child was then expected to send back the passage moeny for the next child and so forth.

[@scifispaceman1557]

@@jgdooley2003 no its the highland clearances

[@mrcool9626]

As a welsh irish i respect that 😢

[@random375]

I am Irish we have a few good songs

[@indiantinamorals5791]

Awesome, from our Scottish cousins, love from Ireland xxxx

[@patrickryan5570]

This is why that brilliant Scottish band is one of the most loved musical acts in Ireland - The Proclaimers - Letter From America.... Oh boy can relate - We share the same heritage - We are Celtic soul brothers. When I was a kid in Ireland - We used to wait for those letters from America.

[@grantmcinnes1176]

You know that 'Thousands Are Sailing' and 'Letter From America' were released within months of each other? Two brilliant and poignant songs about the same experience.

[@telstar4772]

@@grantmcinnes1176 Amazingly "Two Margarines on the go" was also released at that time, another amazing song

[@SuperCracker72]

Probably the most underrated song ever

[@hardtohandleweddingbandent8653]

We once played a wedding reception for a couple who were just about to emigrate to the US from the UK and wanted this as their last song of the night. I think they thought it was a jaunty little tune about moving to another country rather than a devasting assessment of the effects of the Highland Clearances and the North Americans who say "I'm Scottish" but know nothing of the home country.

[@grantmcinnes1176]

Jesus. I would have been crippled with tears. How could the family make it through that.

[@janetfairweather7295]

This is when they didn't have a lot of money. It is very excellent!

[@waynecollier8219]

Janet Fairweather to how, are,you

[@annerobinson1783]

I call myself English while having Scottish ancestry. We should be fighting together, not opposed to each other.

[@mickigoe]

Christ, this makes me yearn to return to Scotland !! And I'm Irish. Absolutely brilliant song.

[@carolynworthington8996]

mickigoe Me, too. And I’m American, and I’ve never been to Scotland.

[@free_gold4467]

brother

[@Jamie-bv6mz]

Same and I'm Scottish. But on a serious note....... no

[@Thaddeus2007]

@@Jamie-bv6mz Something wrong with Scotland?

[@Jamie-bv6mz]

@@Thaddeus2007 very much so with our drug problem. Worst in Europe in fact

[@fadysamy6455]

I’m originally from Egypt and I love Scotland so much. The proclaimers soundtracked my entire uni experience! Mon auld reekie

[@krowbar2009]

Watching this in 2022 with them still being amazing i hope You can bring it back for us Gerry xxx

[@DallSmick]

I'm not Scottish, so it's a surprise that this song is probably my favorite in their lineup. I just love the sound and tone it has, super smooth on the ears.

[@mrscee6152]

Ditto. Always reminds me of Christmas in my horrendous secondary school years. Christmas being happy times. School not so much.

[@rebeccam7326]

I'd rather stay in Scotland now anyways

[@leftcoaster67]

My Grandparents moved to Canada. If I could find work in Scotland I'd happily move back.

[@concars1234]

You're in the best country why would you leave

[@terminalfrost3645]

@@concars1234 It's really not that great, it's quite depressing.

[@danielgandy4473]

I agree. Scotland rawwwks

[@benodlin110]

@@terminalfrost3645 Just depends where you are, the highlands are beautiful but a bit boring. Glasgow is dodgy but it’s getting better. Edinburgh has always been beautiful but it’s busy and expensive, Dundee is improving but still needs more time, don’t get me started on Aberdeen. At the end of the day it may be a shitehole but it’s ours and I’m proud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️

[@peterlewis3540]

Certain songs from each decade, live long in ones memory. Such great lyrics and perfect harmony, will mean this song will be played for years to come. Great music never dies, it grows old like a fine claret, to be enjoyed however old it becomes.

[@patrickfoley489]

Discovered this song the other day and I was totally floored. Been on repeat since ❤️

[@greenisland75]

A classic song from the Proclaimers. I love the way they pronounce words with their strong Scottish accents.

[@ianbartle456]

'Take a lew--k at the re-al trah-k..' Classic indeed.

[@robashton5254]

The Scottish accent really makes this song. Just brilliant.

[@stuartjenkinson184]

This is s fecking classic song they will be playing in 100 years from now. Immortality lads. Well done. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jeanbrown2351]

they really will our young will hear it and love it

[@philiphamer5959]

Beautiful hommage to exile done in a great Scottish accent. A wonderful duo.

[@adrianbates7621]

I'd forgot just how good these guys are, sounds awesome, powerful

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Wow that is bittersweet! Fortunately most of us (who had family from the UK) are doing just fine but we haven't forgotten the Old Country 😀

[@ihavenoname1769]

I'm English and 25 but I've never heard such a special beautiful happy inspiring song for a working class person that's actually brought a tear in my eye I love the Scottish you beautiful people! ❤️

[@alicemilne1444]

I appreciate your feeling, but for this 66yo person who grew up in Scotland, this song is just heartbreaking. It is beautiful, but there is nothing happy or inspiring about it. It is a song about emigration and loss that was mostly forced and not voluntary. It spans the 18th to the 20th century. There is an expression of hope in the rising melody of the "when you go" (not "if" you go), "will you write a letter". That means I realise you see no future here and I hope you have a better future elsewhere, but please don't forget to write to those who stayed. Families were torn apart and in those days, communication was only by letter. But the main message is of loss, departure and desolation: " X no more" in the first few verses lists the names of places in the HIghlands from which people emigrated in the 18th and 19th century (sometimes not voluntarily, e.g. being evicted, burned out of their homes, with police brutality pushing people onto boats). In the later verses, it lists the names of places in Central Scotland where mining, shipbuilding and engineering were killed between the 1960s and the 1980s. This is a lament, not a celebration.

[@petermcallister107]

Thank you. Whoever you are,you are clearly a working class person of principles. Guid luck tae yi.

[@Deleted11100]

Billy Bragg New England 👍🏻

[@maldonboy1]

I'm born in Essex but my name is Scottish - Iain - bloody father came down fro Glasgow in the 70's...

[@margin606]

Romanticism is OK in songs but not a sensible basis for life

[@pausabate9910]

This song is such a Masterpiece. The more I listen to this song and the Proclaimers, the more I like them! I love it! Amazing!

[@MGB]

This is their best song, imo :)

[@bimich7339]

I think 500 miles is better :p

[@alfredbester.psycorps]

@@bimich7339Well, not necessarily better, but also great.

[@rwlynch3468]

Agreed

[@J.D.1.]

Sunshine on Leith

[@random375]

Old comment allert

[@_cursor]

Only learned today that this song was written by Osama Bin Laden. What a strange fella he was.

[@najm9513]

Lol

[@maimun2000]

Link to the letter you are searching is given above

[@PeteLewisWoodwork]

Brilliant song from a brilliant band - they wrote great songs...

[@suzeb7005]

Never heard this Proclaimers song...it's a touching lovely tune

[@betterlookingthanyouravera9619]

I'm a scotsman.. Brilliant song and fantastic twin talent produced by the genius gerry rafferty. What could be better? 😊

[@robashton5254]

... virtually nothing could be better!

[@Iceni007]

poignant, beautiful song. a real classic - no question about it.

[@PoetryFilms]

The very best song by one of the most talented folk/pop acts ever. A huge emotional charge wrapped in a resolutely upbeat package; a true love song for a place and its people.

[@hawaiidispenser]

A beautiful song filled with such longing and pain. I can feel it in my chest.

[@shooglies]

Scotland, be very proud of this band. They are superb

[@mikeschneider1624]

real art and a history lesson, welcome to eternity

[@philiphamer5959]

A helluva underrated double act. Stunning lyrics and wonderful gutteral Celtic voices.

[@monoelmono9476]

My favourite proclaimers song. Obviously everyone likes the walk 500 miles but this is more of a gem for me. Used to listen as a little lad in Essex now listening in Canada

[@vincentreynolds934]

Scotland 4 Ever.

[@CapitalTeeth]

I remember my dad always playing this as we were driving to France for vacation every year. After a couple of times, I just kind of started sleeping to this song. I guess that's where the nostalgia comes from when I listen to this.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

This song comes with a health warning. It’s absolutely ❤️ heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹 Went to an abandoned village in the western highlands about ten years ago. It was chilling. The Clearances. And there’s a pub in Partick in Glasgow where am told the names of those responsible for the Clearances are written on the men’s urinals. I took their word for that. The heartache felt be so many.

[@SandraBrown-h1o]

The Lismore Bar,Glasgow. Has this sign in the men's toilets . This urinal is dedicated to three men who participated in the Scottish Highland Clearances. These men took part in what is now recognised as a form of Central Government endorsed ethnic cleansing. “Through their greed and bigotry, they and others have been instrumental in destroying a centuries old Scottish Highland way of life. “Please feel free to pay them the respect they deserve.” Got to give an award to the Glaswegians for the inventiveness levels of disrespect.

[@EricNoneless]

Them both look literally like the farmer from Shaun the Sheep.

[@seosamhdevine8564]

Back in the late 1980s when most of my generation left the very rural part of Ireland I grew up in. We adapted this song.... The chorus "Sutherland no more, Lewis no more..." etc became a litany of the places our friends emigrated from. Most of them stayed away. I formed a fierce affinity with Scotland back then... Saor Alba

[@jacktaylor3001]

"We always wait too long..." I did not know what this song meant, as a kid when I heard it in the States. My family has held on to one thread... our Scottish thread here in America. I never knew... really... why we were taught to hold on. We just did. Today in the states, there's a lot of civil "unrest" and hate... and hearing this song, as a Yank with Scottish roots... to think that someone might miss us, that someone across the Pond would take a second thought about us over here. That we could be missed really hits home with me. Here, we're nobody. It's quite a mess to unload that we might be thought of elsewhere. Tears from across the Pond. Wondering.

[@jakeandcorirobertson735]

I actually created a channel here JUST so I could like this comment. It's EXACTLY what I was thinking when I listened to this song. I've never heard the song before today, but I love it!

[@Gandalf_Starman]

Aye, we miss a' oor ain folk. People have been forced for hundreds of years, sometimes physically, sometimes financially, to leave Scotland. I'm lucky. I still live here but, like millions of Scots, I never forget those forced to leave. You will always be welcomed home to bonnie Scotland.

[@trainingwithlukey3308]

This has me crying on the way to work x

[@janetjordan2246]

God that's Soo sad.

[@janetjordan2246]

@@jakeandcorirobertson735 you've really never heard this song..uck that's sad.

[@Korra89]

Love this song, makes me happy to be Scottish

[@andygalloway3282]

I love this song too, but it makes me sad to be Scottish

[@modernmusicsucks578]

It does ey....

[@mennobults7011]

I am not Scottish but cheers mate. Great song and perfect English ;-)

[@susanlittlejohn8054]

always happy and PROUD to be SCOTTISH, don't have to make excuses.

[@TheN1H1LL]

Warm people.

[@chrissouthall411]

The Proclaimers recently started a garden maintenance company. I rang them for a quote to come round and do my lawn, but they said they couldn't do it, No mower apparently.

[@__-po7bm]

Chris Southall That's so terrible, it's actually funny. Thanks for the laugh mate

[@timheathfield8700]

Nice one Chris it can only get better ! !

[@chrissouthall411]

nee bother marra

[@chrissouthall411]

I'm in morpeth england

[@johngordon6328]

you want to get turds rid of .....am your man.... give me a costing

[@martinacarson]

I'm going on holiday to Dundee ! I'm from Belfast so I'm going for the food weather and culture ❤ tears

[@OMonk-ss5hw]

One of the best songs ever written by human kind. Wow!

[@lois5946]

The saddest word in this song is "When". They don't say "If you go", but "When you go". That word breaks my heart.

[@SavoxYt]

2:51 That old lady at the front right looks like she only left the house to get some milk and doesn't know how she got mixed up in this.

[@karima_MK]

Despite my poor english, I've been able to hear the srong accent they have. I really like it. I like differsity in accents.

[@Jojoseahorse]

I'm Scottish myself, and love the fact that their accents are clearly defined when they sing, not always the case.

[@magnuspeacock5857]

One of my favourite songs of theirs is _throw the 'r' away_ about their accent

[@kenntaylor9689]

these lads are islanders good folk have seen the monuments to the clearances very sad

[@mennobults7011]

A slightly touch of Scottish, I believe ;-)

[@Danc1978]

They're Scottish, so they also speak poor English so don't worry about it.

[@teaisready7794]

Listening on repeat in 2019, such a great song

[@Lefty7788tinkatolli]

Looking at these comments, people don't seem to realise that not all people in England support Brexit and May. I'm English btw... and I can wholeheartedly say... FUCK BREXIT AND MAY.

[@peterclarke7240]

Christ. I've just realised this song is a deeply upsetting ballad of what happens to some people who seek a better life elsewhere and end up homeless and strung out while telling their folks back home that everything is fine.... Well done for this, lads. Ps, saw youse at nostock a few years back and you were amazing!

[@paulmcloone5735]

It also equates the highland clearances as the same as the closure of 80's industries. Quite an amazing political comment of the day.

[@shonagraham2752]

no its not, difference between seeking a better life and being thrown off the land through political policies that leave you with no choice.

[@peterclarke7240]

@@shonagraham2752 To be fair, very few people "seek a better life" in another country unless they're already rich enough that it's not a gamble for them (in which case, they're not so much seeking a better life, as a life with better ocean views), or because there's something deeply wrong (normally political) happening back home. But I take your point.

[@cabdriveruk]

Produced by Gerry Rafferty, just a great song

[@cabdriveruk]

@Griffith Williams Letter from America (song) "Letter from America" Single by The Proclaimers Songwriter(s) Reid & Reid Producer(s) Gerry Rafferty & Hugh Murphy

[@theredseventhousand]

Absolute poetry Tears in my eyes thinking of the agony of the millions who flew away, and those left behind...

[@free_gold4467]

Fucking awesome I miss Scotland so badly I'm crying.

[@Jp67-n6b]

Just come home from watching the proclaimers at hay festival, absolutely brilliant.

[@twt3716]

First listened to this when I was a kid. 46 now. Tremendous 😊

[@firstplace2580]

absolutely love this song

[@doctorheck2186]

My girlfriend and I have been talking about emigrating someday, more than likely to Toronto than anywhere else. Nothing quite like this song to change my mind.

[@Omegan101]

As a Canadian I don't think Toronto would be my first pick in most circumstances.

[@johnnydtractive]

The music in the way you say "Lochaber" just about makes me cry. (Hello & thankyou from Canada, where you're loved & cherished!!!)

[@thehighlander4771]

I live in lochaber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@erobertson1417]

I haven’t thought about this song for a long time. It’s great.

[@robashton5254]

...you need to think about it more often! Cos it's just brilliant!

[@4zarrr]

Security: Mate, why the alcohol? Bro: *1000 yard stare*

[@willneverforgets3341]

Nice and very emotional song!

[@christopherhogg8364]

They got fired as groundsmen by Hibernian FC. They claimed when they tried several branches of B&Q for kit but they were all out of stock. Bathgate, no mower. Linwood, no mower. Methill, no mower. Irvine, no mower.

[@evanwhitton6658]

Underrated tune in different countries, but this is a Scottish hit song👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@legasiguy551]

Letter from America: Dear mom and dad, We can walk anywhere in absolute anonymity unless we wear our glasses and starting singing "500 miles"!

[@mosesj3022]

amazing masterpiece this music makes you feel a certain way enough respect to the scottish people from Morocco 🇲🇦 ❤

[@jazpalsingh]

Recently moved to America and I listen to this song so much as it’s an migrant story sang with so much passion and emotion - it’s way easier staying in touch with your home country now but back in the day you were literally leaving everything behind which would have been so hard - great song and great band

[@mfitzy100]

I think this is way better than a Thousand Miles- superb depth and emotion, history to the song. The young kids playing outside the factory from generations past is very moving

[@meggypeggy9142]

This song is chaotic, meaningful, beautiful, catchy, upbeat but bittersweet, awesome. I love the proclaimers so much

[@patrickstocks3986]

When you go will you send back a letter from America? Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada Well broke off from my work the other day Spent the evening thinking about all the blood that flowed away Across the ocean to the 2nd chance I wonder how it go on when it reached the promised land When you go will send back a letter from America? Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada I've looked at the ocean tried hard to imagine The way you felt the day you sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia We should have held you, we should have told you But you know our sense of timing we always wait too long When you go will you send back a letter from America? Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more Lewis no more, Skye no more Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more Lewis no more, Skye no more Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more Lewis no more, Skye no more I wonder my blood will you ever return To help us kick the life back to a dying mutual friend? Do we not love her I think we all tell you about Do we have to roam the world to prove how much it hurts? When you go will you send back a letter from America? Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada Bathgate no more, Linwood no more Methil no more, Irvine no more Bathgate no more, Linwood no more Methil no more, Irvine no more Bathgate no more, Linwood no more Methil no more, Irvine no more Bathgate no more, Linwood no more Methil no more, Lochaber no more

[@seana2680]

How do you have this much time on your hands

[@andreaknowles78]

Thank you. I can sing along now. 🙂

[@billgrant4825]

When I first heard this I thought at last Scots singers using their accents not trying to sound American, and I went and bought their album (yes album not CD) love it

[@gkmmlc]

Due to my Father's job the family had to move from Glasgow to England in 1962. I miss Scotland everyday. I think it must be a celtic thing.