The Corries Lochnagar
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jiiiiiiiiiiiha
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Love the bit that says England thy beauties are tame and domestic compared to Dark Lochnagar. Was a coach driver and once had an English Tour director tell people we were approaching Loch Nagar. Lochnagar is a mountain.
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There is just something so hauntingly beautiful about this song......
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3 people must have taken nagar for a racial slur...
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How can three people dislike this? Baffling!!!
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@Cradh actually that was written by "Lord" Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) of Ireland where he was born
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the jewel in the corries crown
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@gaconnochie Mind after saying that I like your comment about what is half Scottish or half English. My wife has one Scottish parent and one English parent but she regards herself as both English and Scottish. That is as much a Scot or English person as anyone else. Not half of anything :-)
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By 1823, Byron was in Greece, where he became a 'hero' of the Greek War for independence, where he died of a fever on 19 April 1824.
he was, as I said, half English and half Scottish by blood (whatever that means), but he seems rather to have loved Scotland from a distance.
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There followed the string of affairs with numerous society ladies also in London, for which Byron has become so widely known, accompanied by reports of domestic violence, adultery with a number of actresses, incest with August Leigh and allegations of sodomy. Much is attributed to a jealous Lady Caroline Lamb.
Byron left England for the last time in April 1816, and travelled through Europe, before settling in Switzerland, near Lake Geneva. In 1817, he journeyed to Rome.
Lord Byron was GEORGE GORDON - of a Scottish family - his Scottishness well-recognised at the time. A Jacobite in sympathy and an adventurer on behalf of independence of small nations, like Greece, for whom he fought.
His associate the Edinburgh doctor Polidori wrote The Vampyre - a thinly veiled reference to Byron - a Scottish noble living in London - expanded from a framework written by Byron himself. Byron an Englishman? "Just because you are born in a stable doesn't make you a horse!"
Cradh 3 years ago 31
my favourite Corries song of all time. Absolutely brilliant,
rudyell 3 years ago 14