The Highland Clearances - Miss Catherine Brosnan --- Silly Wizard descargar videos gratis


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Subido: 2010/03/14

2 songs from the album "So Many Partings" by Silly Wizard

Lyrics:

Ah, for the glens are lyin' bare

And the wee bit farm deserted

And the woods o' Germany

Grows in rows round the broken-hearted

Black is the wood on the ruffian-swa's braw

But blacker still is your heart, Victoria

Sent your men untae our glen

You'll need the good Lord lookin' o'er ya

Many hae gane tae Americay

Ye burnt their hames and garred them wander

For I woulda gane wi' th'de'il himsel'

As bide and hour wi' the cruel Gillanders

Ah, for the glens are lyin' bare

And the wee bit farm deserted

And the woods o' Germany

Grows in row round the broken-hearted

Comentarios

9 years ago

Mick Tearlach

@vegan136It is a sad truth that not just the clan system was destroyed but the highland culture was destroyed also. However, places like Isle of Barra have held on to some extent. Many MacNeills still living there and majority of the population can speak Gaelic. A true Celtic and Gaelic strong hold in Scotland.

9 years ago

TheCiderThinker

Any idea what "Black is the wood on the ruffian-swa's braw" means?

10 years ago

tom parsons

thank you happy memories of living in the highlands in the early 70s came flooding back, you may or may not enjoy this. The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil (Complete)

10 years ago

graceygrumble

Another one perpetuating the myth that it was the fault of the English! There was an agricultural and industrial revolution which forced English people off the land they had worked for generations, too. It was the 'haves' against the 'have-nots'. It had fuck all to do about which side of the border you came from. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way. Oh, and before you start, my name's Mackay; my forefathers were victims of the Highland Clearances.

10 years ago

Renato Gonzaga

this is so beautiful!!!..

10 years ago

standerson1

Fuck the English! Get it right up yees!

11 years ago

martine2u

Such a beautiful song. It's difficult to imagine how people were sent away from their land only to make room for sportsmen and landowners. You can feel the relentless pain and despair in the single-note music in the background. Even the pipes can't be their jolly usual selves. As always, Andy's rendition goes to the heart of the emotions under the words. One more gem...

11 years ago

martine2u

Hoterebel, vous n'etes pas le seul a vous rappeler. J'ai vu Andy en concert voici 5 ans de ca, et j'ai eu l'occasion de lui parler apres. Il se souvenait tres bien de son passage en France et en avait un tres bon souvenir, surtout l'accueil des gens. Quelle chance de l'avoir vu "live" avec Silly Wizard. Je n'ai vu que Andy and Phil, en concert individuel. C'est deja super, mais j'aurai tant aime voir le groupe lui-meme...

11 years ago

GILLEBRATH

Woe is Man ,he has warred against his own kind and a blemish upon the earth has become,sowed the wind and reaped the whirl wind,Heaven help us tolerate one another.

11 years ago

richardbough

Beautiful, flat out beautiful!!! The Tin whistle sounds fantastic too!

11 years ago

Mick Tearlach

Scottish people have been their own worst enemy through history. Scotland could have been its own independent prosperous country today had they all stuck together. From wars of independence to the Jacobite rebellion, too many Scots turned their back on Scotland when they were really needed. I hope that the Scotland of the future has no London, no Queen and Gaelic as a compulsory School subject. About time we had our culture back.

12 years ago

Korth23

Silly Wizard "Live Again" - the remastered, repackaged, complete CD of the band's "Live In America" & "Golden, Golden" LPs is out!!! Available only direct from the band at sillywizard.co.uk

13 years ago

wyvisben

The cleared Scots often had to join the army for lack of anything else to support, and fought in Germany for the Hanoverians (or indeed, for the French, against them). Inevitably they left many lying buried in the forests there.

13 years ago

hoterebel

Ce groupe est venu chanter dans mon village de 300 hab. en 1979, ou 1980 je crois!!! eh oui j'étais enfant mais jamais je ne n'oublierai !! Que d'émotion pour mon 1er concert ! J'ai encore le disque ! La jacquette et celle là même (photo plus haut) : « So many partings » Trop fun de re écouter leur album now

13 years ago

hoterebel

I am looking for the song : »AA Cameron’s Strathsprey ... The new shillin’” from the album “so many partings” Ce groupe est venu chanter dans mon village de 300 hab. en 1979, ou 1980 je crois!!! eh oui j'étais enfant mais jamais je ne n'oublierai !! Que d'émotion pour mon 1er concert ! J'ai encore le disque ! La jacquette et celle là même (photo plus haut) : « So many partings » Trop fun de re écouter leur album now

13 years ago

heehawluck1

Achingly beautiful...and stirring. Never heard the like.....marvelous. Thank you.

13 years ago

Neil O'Matic

@Ten7d5 This refers to the First World War. What the English could not quite do to clear the glens before that war the slaughter finally did, killing off many sons of the Gael and further reducing the numbers of Gaelic speakers in many regions of Scotland. Hence "the woods of Germany grow in rows around the broken hearted."

13 years ago

manicjoe

@Ten7d5 : it relates to the Hanoverian Kings of England in 18th and 19th century (the Clearances took place in that time)

13 years ago

Ten7d5

Why does this song reference Germany? just curious. And I believe Gillanders are the clan Gillander of Ross

13 years ago

Dantes Darkside

@UberNickus at the time Id listend this songs on vinyl I thought it was just one ^^. And when the flute startet the second song it is kind of ecstatic somehow

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