2007-01-22 11:50:41 · 10 answers · asked by dublin40 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I know that it is a love song & the meaning of the term bonny, but thelyric excapes me. " You take the high road & I'll take the low road...???
2007-01-22 12:08:24 · update #1
Can't answer my own question,however, when I found & read all of the songs lyrics the meaning was clear. Anyone interested please do that. Thank you all.
2007-01-23 06:57:59 · update #2
Bonnie - Beautiful
The beautiful, beautiful banks of Loch Lomond. :-)
You can read more about the song here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Banks_O%27_Loch_Lomond
2007-01-22 16:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever travelled from England to Scotland? You can go around the coast, which is relatively flat but seems longer if you just measure it on a map, it goes around in a curve. Another route is to try cutting across the hills- on the map, it seems the shorter route, just a straight line, but climbing up all the hills is pretty damned time consuming.
So, the man says 'Ye take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye'. I reckon that means 'take the straight route through the hills if you like, but I know the coast is faster'. Alright. The next phrase, 'but me and my true love will never meet again on the bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond', that's the killer line. Even though the singer has experience and knows what the fastest route to Scotland is, it doesn't matter, he can never see his loved one again by the loch, where you presume they used to meet. She's dead, or gone somehow, wisdom is worth little now.
As for the rest of the lyrics, I don't know them, but if you post them up, I'll do my best to interpret them for you.
2007-01-22 12:23:06 · answer #2 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Loch Lomond is a lake in Scotland. Bonny bonny banks refers to two brothers who were captured by English soilders and thrown into the Carlisle jail. The two brothers had revolted and one of them were to be sentenced to death and the other one released. The oldest brother had a family, so the younger brother opted for death so his brother could live and take care of his family. It is referred to as the bonny bonny banks because someone had actually lost their life on the banks of Loch Lomond.
2007-01-22 12:09:14 · answer #3 · answered by i_luv_someone_2000 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was written by someone who was soon going to be executed for his political/Royal beliefs (can't remember exactly....perhaps a supporter of the Catholic, Stuart family claim to the Throne). He'd clearly enjoyed being on the banks of loch lomond but that would not be happening again:
For me and my true love
Will never meet again
On the bonny, bonny banks
Of loch lomond
2007-01-22 12:03:26 · answer #4 · answered by rage997_666 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL no ''a bonny lass'' means a very pretty girl, it's a phrase more commonly used in the north of England and Scotland.
2016-05-23 23:09:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its beautiful so so pretty. and loch lomond is a lake thus the banks.
its a love song and its where many ppl get married.
2007-01-22 11:55:37 · answer #6 · answered by bex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am Scottish and will meet ye in the Temple bar and try to explain it, basically its a love song, Jim (Dublin)
2007-01-22 11:55:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard it was about 2 people who were gonna die, and one man decided to let the other guy go and kill him, for unknown reasons..
" you take the high road " - easy way out, heaven
" i'll take the low " - going underground
" i'll b in scotland before ye " - in spirit
2007-01-22 12:07:49 · answer #8 · answered by 18/M/Scotland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the high road means 'heaven ie death' and low road is earth
2007-01-22 12:19:36 · answer #9 · answered by Cat burgler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bonny means pretty/beautiful etc
2007-01-22 12:00:49 · answer #10 · answered by antagonist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋