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Dark Lochnagar

Date 09 November 1975
Track ID 63049
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1975.230.A5

Original Tape ID

SA1975.230

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 (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 - Roxburghshire

Parish - Hawick

Village/Place - Hawick

Item Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Crathie and Braemar

Village/Place - Lochnagar

Language

English

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R2436 GD508

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good