Music for Sunday, "Loch Loman" on Bagpipe

Many of these scenes in this video look very familiar to me now--one I think even shows the foot path of the West Highland Way.  I discovered that there a lot of theories as to the meaning of this song.  One common interpretation is that the singer is going to die because of Jacobite uprising in 1745 (a bit of history I haven't quite figured out), and so, the low road was death.

I chose this song because I spend three days of my Scotland trip hiking within view of Loch Loman on a trip sponsored by the Sierra Club group, and this song would often run through my crazy mind.  On the last day of our trip, we enjoyed a little concert in front of our B & B in Fort William by a 15-year old piper named Ally Weir.  You can see above what a charmer he is. (Loch Linnhe in the background.