The High Road

I am writing this post from the highlands of Scotland, and I must say, I had no idea of the amazing beauty and terrain of this place. 
I am currently on the "bonny, bonny banks of Loch (lake) Lomond." You probably know the song, it goes "you take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland before you, where me and my true love will never meet again on the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond." The tune sounds happy but the words not because it isn't. 
The story is that two captured Scottish prisoners of the Jacobite clan (a clan known to be savage and according to the conventional English belief at the time deserved nothing but the harshest treatment) were to be released after years of imprisonment. The story goes that as their moment of release was coming they were told that one of them would be liberated and the other executed and they had to decide who would be who in the next minute. 
Apparently the older brother knocked out the younger with a swift blow to the face and when the guards came he was dispatched. 
The younger brother wrote this song, his brother on the high road of heaven and he on the earthly one.
A beautiful and sad story and song. Later on, I'll try to upload a video of me playing this song on the very banks.