I remember being in Scotland years ago and getting this explanation of this song, it has been one of my favorites ever since. A related interpretation holds that a professional soldier and a volunteer were captured by the English in one of the small wars between the countries in the couple of hundred years prior to 1746. Volunteers could accept parole, a release contingent on the volunteers refusal to rejoin the fighting, but regulars could not and so could face execution. The volunteer would take the high road that linked London and Edinburgh while the soul of the executed regular would return along the low road and would get back to Scotland first youtube/watch?v=rbb9aRSQpsY
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:41:31 +0000
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