The Highland Clearances - Miss Catherine Brosnan --- Silly Wizard

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

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[Ten7d5]

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

[DantesDarkside]

@Ten7d5

I really have no idea, I was wondering about it too. But it is nice, because it is my home country :)

[UberNickus]

I never noticed that these songs flow together so seamlessly. Nice job linking them.

[DantesDarkside]

@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

[heehawluck1]

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

[GeXeS]

This was maybe the very first scottish song I ever heard. This version is awesome! Yeah, it is chilling...

[SemajSattler]

Theres something about Celtic music that brings out the purest of emotion.

[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.

[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



[Hoglysis]

@Ten7d5

German trees were used to reforest the highlands after extensive logging in the 1700's. As for Gillanders, he was a particularly nasty land owner during this period.

[Tatomatic]

@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."

[Rexicano]

Some TRIVIA;

THE song name was misspelled on the CD file reissue.

it's ok on the Cover but coded in wrong on the digital file itself.

Some English bastard probably typed it....!

Just got done writing out a lot of charts for a lot of Silly Wizard songs; I heard them a long time ago but only recently decided to record them myself.

Simple pieces but actually harder than I thought to perfect as nicely as S.W.