The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond
by Andrew Lang
circa 1876

So ye'll tak the high road, and I'll tak the laigh road,
An' I'll be in Scotland before ye:
But me and my true love will never meet again,
By the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond.

For my love's heart brake in twa, when she kenned the Cause's fa',
And she sleeps where there's never nane shall waken,
Where the glen lies a' in wrack, wi' the houses toom and black,
And her father's ha's forsaken.

While there's heather on the hill shall my vengeance ne'er be still,
While a bush hides the glint o' a gun, lad;
Wi' the men o' Sergeant Môr shall I work to pay the score,
Till I wither on the wuddy in the sun, lad!

So ye'll tak the high road, and I'll tak the laigh road,
An' I'll be in Scotland before ye:
But me and my true love will never meet again,
By the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond.

Editor's Notes:  Why would this famous work of Lang's be included in the Clan Cameron Archives?  The lone reason for its inclusion is contained within line #15, "Wi' the men o' Sergeant Môr shall I work to pay the score."  Sergeant Môr was John Dhu Cameron (also known as Sergeant Dhu), a large and fearsome Jacobite who left the French service to fight for Lochiel's Regiment against the Hanoverians in 1745/46.  In the aftermath of Culloden he and his band of outlaws took to the mountains and eventually Rannoch Moor.  Their raids primarily targeted Hanoverian landowners.  John was eventually betrayed and captured in 1753.  He was taken to Perth, tried and hanged for his crimes, but not before earning a legendary reputation.