Dark Lochnagar
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1962.67.B16
Original Tape ID
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" in comparison.
Item Notes
2 verses of 8 lines, corresponding to the first and last of Byron's five stanzas. Piano accompaniment. 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)
Recording Location
Village/Place - Galloway
Item Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Crathie and Braemar
Village/Place - Lochnagar
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair