Amy Mcdonald - Caledonia

[pontepolentepontepi]

So Beautiful :-)))

[PetulaGuimaraes]

she reminds me joan baez in her voice and sweet-and-strong style

[jollino]

the only problem with this song is that it's too short...

[simplyscottish]

A great song...we named our daughter Caledonia Joy, so she'll grow up with this song in her ear! Check out the Simply Scottish Blog!

[harper670]

really like the song...

[tatanpapasaltcoats]

im so proud to be from scotland , well done amy

[narutoo225]

Ah i get this song now! caledonia is the roman word for scotland, so this song is about a the singer missing his country, not about a girl! :P

[zsoltsandor83]

@narutoo225 Get used to it that musicians with Irish, or Scottish origins usually sing about places (, the country, the land, a town, a river, etc.) as if they were singing about/for their beloved one. Celtic people have a huge heart for their homeland.

[illinois1776]

@zsoltsandor83

i never thought about that; but you are absolutely right. they do!

[darrengovier]

love scotland xxx love amy lovvvvve runrig xxx

[darrengovier]

love scotland xxx

[axe8564]

who is the origional artist that recorded this song?? is there a ofisial video??

what does caledonia mean?

[dramaqueen884]

@axe8564 Caledonia, essentially, means Scotland. It's a Latin name that the Romas gave to the land where Scotland is today. Hope that helps! :)

[JodieAvens]

I´m not a scot. But I love this land for years and I´m sooooo happy I can go back this year. But there is so much to see, and so many to meet... how could I choose?

Scotland... just everything and everything to love.

[may4nova]

love the music..!!!

[muzzawelsh]

It's MacDonald the name dude !

[CowboySrki]

Beautiful voice and great song! Scotland forever!! :)

[AlandiMarquez]

wow me gusto bastante saludos 

[maoraburus90]

She's way better than Lady Gaga

[Doohie07]

Beautiful Girl and Voice

Love & Peace from Belgium

[ajmobeel]

saw kids on you tube called .. na rionnagan.. this wee lot blew me away. how did they get the barrowland gig

[radiancesucks]

lol i like her music, not particularly this song, but one thing i noticed is...

if i made a song I LOVE GERMANY there would instantly be like 50billion people...

you know the end of the story

[ItsBalderDasH]

At first I thought she meant new Caledonia of the coast of Austrialia but man was I wrong!!

SCOTLAND!!!!

[freddyonfeber]

@DoomsdayDevice9mm your comment speaks for itself. long time ago I had a love affair with a scottish girl and since then I know what it means to be scottish.

I deeply love your Caledonia

[ThayinJai]

she's amazing

[GlensNumberOne]

@DoomsdayDevice9mm couldn't agree more!! :D

SCOTLAND FOREVER

[dualsalum]

Bloody Brilliant.

get in there scotland

makes you proud to be scottish eh ?

[AMZuba]

Amazing.  Love this song more and more every time I hear it.

[DoomsdayDevice9mm]

Beautiful.

I love this song - any version of it.

Just makes me love my country even more.

No accent is better than a Scotsman.

No country is better than Scotland.

Oh Scotland the Brave.

Personal opinion but no country has the beauty we have except New Zealand but even then i still prefer Scotland!

THANK YOU SCOTLAND, YOU GIVE ME EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED OR NEED.

[wellershill]

What about Norway? Just as spectacular.

[bal2903]

Sorry to say it Norway although nice cant touch Scotland, I spent 3 months in Norway with 3 commando Brigade Royal Marines in the winter of 2006 on Arctic Warfare Training and I agree its nice but as I said not as nice as Scotland

[wellershill]

Maybe silly of me to compare - both wonderful. Norway has Fjords etc and more colourful buildings. Love Scotttish highlands and lochs, but the grey stone or white cottages with grey roofs could do with some Norwegian colour at times. But Scotland is less cold and wet than Norway! Scandinavian social, health & education systems the most enlightened in the world. But that's not scenery.

[longforgan]

@DoomsdayDevice9mm

Still love New Zealand the Scotland of the South

[sniperpate]

@DoomsdayDevice9mm

Maybe you are right,but what you think about Finland :)

[DoomsdayDevice9mm]

@sniperpate

Hi mate, i can't actually comment on Finland because i have never seen it :(

But i have met a few Finnish folk and they have always been very nice people and you can usually say the same for their country as a nice country usually makes nice people :) :P

[Tormento98]

@DoomsdayDevice9mm

i am not sottish (sadly), but i can feel what you talk about.

greetings from Switzerland

[antonic11]

you obviously don't know a lot about music.

[antonic11]

pop songs aren't about how many chords you can play for fucks sake. and obviously this song is based on a I IV V progression regardless of who sings it. So if you think that Amy Mcdonald lacks guitar skill it's the same as saying that frankie miller does because he wrote it. Anyway, this song is far more than the music that surrounds it.

[birdstuckinchimney]

Two things;

1) Frankie Miller did not write this song

2) Dougie McLean, who did write it, used Minors when he played it as does every other guitar player who has any basic skill at all.

[birdstuckinchimney]

Who's Frankie Miller?

[birdstuckinchimney]

LOL...it's you that needs to do a search my friend. Frankie Miller did NOT write or first perform this song, Dougie McLean did.

If you're going to be scornful of people who disagree with you it always best to get your basic facts straight first or you end up looking like a moron.

I agree with you about Amy McDonald's version of this song though, I don't like it much at all. My personal favourite is Paolo Nutini's version

[antonic11]

god I did end up looking like a moron:D it figures too dougie's version is my personal favorite..

[joelang6126]

Pish

[bigchappy1970]

straight to the point and 100% acurate

[joelang6126]

thanks mate lol

[AmyMacDRocks]

Love it.

Scotland is great.

Im from Holland :)

[LOMANDYO]

Nice one lass xc

[klarive]

What do you really want to say Vedrissh?

[zsoldosda]

Hajrá amy from hungary:)

[tjulcsa88]

Én is szeretem Amyt from hungary :D

[buckboy81]

amy macdonald class

[klarive]

I liked it

[Vedrissh]

u liked it...haha...and don't like it anymore or ???

[zsuzsa23]

scotts really got it....but why Caledonia?scotland, way better.

[Brihemianrhapsody]

Caledonia sounds more mystic/romantic

[panxolodvg]

Yeah!

[deannolanmusic]

Caledonia was the latin name the Romans used for Scotland

[EvivDijk]

@deannolanmusic indeed:D Hollandia was Holland:D

[Matten0420]

hat biztos azert mert ez a dal cime eredetileg kedves Zsuzsa.

[bellybroom]

good version of a great song. pity about the bag pipes.

[granosalvo]

wow! fantastic voice!!very nice song

[sweet143222]

i go to a school named caledonia ha

[Hellwyr]

caledonia is teh roman name for scotland/alba

[hairysackofbaws]

Kierannightstalker is right, only scots can really understand and feel this song, i think its not a bad version but no matter who covers it it will put a lump in the throat, wen i moved away from bonnie bonnie alba i thought of this song now and again and it really does sum up wat it is to be scottish, although in reality we are pretty much pish at everything our love and passion will never falter..

ALBA GU BRAGTH

[revilo178]

from other videos I definitely get the impression that live performances have way more feeling than this cd version.

[ljbabysprite]

This isn't a bad cover. I've heard worse, much worse. She's truer to Dougie's rendition than others' who've covered it.

[weltmusik65]

no matter who sings it this song will always be great so stop fussing about

[JHJ1989]

In my opinion is this a VERY bad cover!

[revilo178]

I suspect the trouble with cover versions is exactly that everyone already "knows" what the song has to sound like...

[kierannightstalker]

For me, this song epitomises Scotland. I love it, I miss it, I will always be Scots. Thank you Dougie Maclean for putting into words what it means to be Scots. Unless you're from this great country, you'll never truly understand the feelings this song conjures up (no matter who sings it!) but listen to it and you'll be a part of it...and we'll welcome you with open arms to the friendliest country in the world. Failte!

[livingNUTTER]

a like her and aw but this is shite,...

[Hrocholucik]

Po všech verzích,které jsme si tu pouštěla, je tahle nejkrásnější.Wou.

[brunodruid]

just superlative!

[ealasiad]

It's not the song it's just that the rendition is not the best and to tell the truth there are better songs around that espouse our nation much better than this

[al3674]

How can anyone not be mesmerised by this song?

No matter which version i listen to it still makes my blood stir as does the skirl of the pipes!!

Long live Scotland!!!

[ealasiad]

If she wasn't Amy MacDonald who would listen to this. 000000

[migga86]

Her version isn't quite as good as the one performed by Celtic Woman. You should listen to their version.

If Amy sang that song their way, I guess it would have made the top 10.

[scotjack]

You have to be joking!

The CW version is terrible. What with all that choreography and posing. This is not the best version, but it's certainly better than that.

[migga86]

I have not been looking at the CW version for their "choreography and posing". They just have nice voices and sing some songs better.

I'm not saying Amy sings terrible - this song just isn't made for her. It would surely be the same should she try to sing "We Don't Need Another Hero" or "My Life Would Suck Without You". Sometimes it is better to stick with the songs that your voice supports. There is no voice on earth made to sing every song there is and sound equally good and fitting at each.

[scotjack]

migga86 - Point taken about the voices/songs, and I respect your opinion on CW even though I strongly disagree with it. But, as a Scot, I just feel that this rendition really expresses the theme of the song, whereas, the visual distraction of CW's "performance" detracts from it.

[neleke95]

she's verry good

she was in Belgium but she was sick

:(:(

[ptpro77]

Macdonald is not that unusual of spelling; that is my last name and it is spelled with a small "d". I have seen it both ways on her official site/merchandise, but most often as all one word. Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

[atom4tunes]

Thanks, Mcd. Confusing shifts in spelling on her website, then -- a little like Will Shakespeare and YTubers.

Yes, I know that Wiki-P is not always reliable. You could always open an account and fix the relevant errors. That's how Wiki-P improves ;-}

[revilo178]

but that doesn't work cuz wiki always changes back your corrections ;-)

[haig242]

damn right it makes me think of home, iv been in new zealand for a year and half, i hear this song and it makes me think of walking down princes st in edinburgh

[ptpro77]

It's Macdonald not McDonald or Mcdonald!

[atom4tunes]

I think you meant to write it's Macdonald not McDonald or MacDonald. Her website lists it as MacDonald -- so does Wikipedia.

"Son of donald", rather than "Son of Donald" would be an unusual spelling.

[ptpro77]

Macdonald is not that unusual of spelling; that is my last name and it is spelled with a small "d". I have seen it both ways on her official site/merchandise, but most often as all one word. Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

[brettbabe0charlie]

wow

something that touches you right with her first words

[kev9033]

I've heard many versions of this song but this is really the way it should be sung with true feeling. Brilliant!

[BrILjanTje]

good version;)

[Chezloeloe]

I never heard this song before (shame on me, I know), I compared it to the other versions (Celtic Thunder, Celtic Woman etc.)..And I believe this one's the best!

[Otsuku]

Beautifull

but still like the version of Rapalje better

[garfreeek]

aren't they the band that played at last years castlefest

(a celtic/middle ages festival)

would love to hear that version!

[Otsuku]

Yes they've played at castlefest

Just search Rapalje - Caledonia ;)

[garfreeek]

wow that's quick!

thanks!

[garfreeek]

it's all beautifull and stuff but the first half is cheery and the second half depressing,

couldn't she balance this out!

[witchiepoo2]

but it is a sad song - it's about someone who's away from their homeland & it's tearing at their heart.

[tafairy]

well if she would rewrite the song, which isn't a very nice thing to do with someone else's song

[garfreeek]

sorry i'm a bit mmisunderstood, i meant the whole album!

-rock&roll

-poisin prince

-this is the life

all in the begining footballers wife and the others were at the back of the cd!

i don't think so anymore by the way ^_^

i love the whole thing now!

[tafairy]

ah ok i see!

Glad you like the whole thing now though; i love it too.

She is amazing, especially since she is so young. I would love to see her perform one day.

[revilo178]

I'm soory, the thumb down I gave you was a misclick.

[garfreeek]

oh i don't mind that much ^_^

it is good to know your not all furious though = D

thanks!

[fitzlvzcarrie]

Kwality =]

[krienatjuh]

beautiful <3