Dark Lochnagar

Contributors

Lonie, William Sharpe, 1904-1968 (4950)

Fieldworkers

Henderson, Hamish, 1919-2002 (10)

Date

Track ID 35434

Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1962.67.A14

Original Tape ID

SA1962.067

Summary

Fragments of Lord Byron's popular song 'Dark Lochnagar', in which the singer longs to return to Lochnagar. England's landscapes are tame and domestic by comparison.

Item Notes

2 verses of 8 lines, corresponding to the first and last of Byron's five stanzas. Lyrics composed by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824); melody attributed to Sir Henry Bishop (1786-1855).

Lochnagar is not a body of water, but is in fact a mountain in Aberdeenshire.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, p. 310
'Songs by Lord Byron' (G. Gordon, 1878) p. 211
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(318) (Preston, 1860-1880)

Item Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Crathie and Braemar

Village/Place - Lochnagar

Language

English

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair