Loch Lomond
Language: English
Available translation(s): IRI
By yon bonny banks and yon bonny braes,
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond,
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae,
On the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond.
Chorus
O you'll take the high road and I'll take the low road
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye,
But me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond.
'Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen,
On the steep, steep side of Ben Lomond,
Where deep in purple hue the Highland hills we view,
And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
The wee birdies sing and the wild flow'rs spring,
And in sunshine the waters are sleeping,
But the broken heart it kens nae second spring again
Tho' the woeful may cease from their greeting.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Set in a modified version by Arthur Foote.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Cois Loch Laomainn", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 142
Cois Loch Laomainn
Language: Irish (Gaelic)  after the English
Ar na bruach’ úd thall agus taobh leis an ard
Is an ghrian sa spéir os Loch Laomainn
Ba gheal le mo ghrása is mé féin a bheith gach lá
Sinn ag fálróid dúinn féin cois Loch Laomainn.
Curfá
An mórbhóthar duitse is an bóithrín dom féinig
Is beidh mise romhatsa in Albain,
Ach mise is mo ghrá geal ní fheicfear sinn arís
Sinn ag fálróid dúinn féin cois Loch Laomainn.
I ngleann úd na scáile scaras léi monuar
Faoi learga géara Bheann Laomainn,
An fraoch is é faoi bhláth, an ghealach ana fhuar
An croí i mo chliabhsa ar caorthainn.
Is canann na héin, tá na goirt faoi bhláth
Is an ghrian sna huiscí fá shuan:
Ach earrach níl i ndán don té atá ar fán
Ar fud an domhain mhóir go buan.
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-16
Line count: 17
Word count: 134