Tour Scotland Travel Video Walk To Whisky Hogmanay Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows Procession Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Years Eve travel video of the walk to the whisky at Newburgh Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows annual torchlight walk and procession on ancestry visit and trip to Newburgh, Fife>. Founded by visitors from Dundee more than a century ago, the unique event sees a host of colourful characters in fancy dress. Newburgh is the only place in Scotland, if not the world, where you can see an Oddfellow parade first hand.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Start Of Hogmanay Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows Procession Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Years Eve travel video of the start of the Newburgh Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows annual torchlight walk and procession on ancestry visit and trip to Newburgh, Fife. Founded by visitors from Dundee more than a century ago, the unique event sees a host of colourful characters in fancy dress. Newburgh is the only place in Scotland, if not the world, where you can see an Oddfellow parade first hand.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Bagpipes Hogmanay New Years Eve Newburgh Fife

Tour Scotland Hogmanay New Years Eve travel video of Jack Wright a Bagpiper on ancestry visit to Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish piper was playing before the start of the Newburgh Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows annual torchlit walk and procession.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Traditional Loch Tay Boat Song Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of Loch Tay Boat Song being sung on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. ( sorry about the poor acoustics )

When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo

Nighean ruadh, your lovely hair
Has more beauty I declare
Than all the tresses fair
From Killin to Aberfeldy
Be they lint-white, gold or brown
Be they blacker than the sloe
They mean not as much to me
As a melting flake of snow

And her dance is like the gleam
Of the sunlight on the stream
And the songs the wee folk sing
They're the songs she sings at milking
But my heart is full of woe
For last night she bade me go
And the tears begin to flow
As I sing hori horo
When I've done the work of day
And I row my boat away
Down the waters of Loch Tay
When the evening light is falling
Then I look towards Ben Lawers
Where the after glories glow
And I dream on two bright eyes
With a merry mouth below

She's my beauteous nighean ruadh
She's my joy and sorrow too
Though I own she is not true
Ah, but I cannot live without her
For my heart's a boat in tow
And I'd give the world to know
If she means to let me go
As I sing hori horo

The Gaelic words "nighean ruadh" mean "red-haired girl".

"Hori horo" are used by the Scots to indicate sorrow.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph George Thomson Wine And Spirit Merchant Uplawmoor Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the George Thomson Wine and Spirit Merchant shop in Uplawmoor village located in East Renfrewshire near Glasgow, Scotland. Historic Uplawmoor has been associated for centuries with the Barony of Caldwell and the Mure family. Nearby is the extensive Caldwell Estate with the roofless 18th century Caldwell House, which was designed by Robert Adam. The separate Caldwell Tower, of probable 16th century origin, is visible from the village. Several farms surround the village, as agriculture has always been of importance locally.



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