Dark Lochnagar
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Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1959.108.A12
Original Tape ID
Summary
A fragment from the opening of Lord Byron's popular song 'Dark Lochnagar', in which the singer longs to return to Lochnagar.
Item Notes
1 verse of 8 lines, corresponding to the first 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 (as might well be assumed) a body of water, but is in fact a mountain in Aberdeenshire.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, p. 310, no. 508
'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
County - Kincardineshire
Parish - Fetteresso
Village/Place - Stonehaven
Item Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Crathie and Braemar
Village/Place - Lochnagar
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good