Vedanto_Art · English · Gàidhlig · 2026-10-22 · folk-rock, scotland, highland clearances, land
« Whose Land Whose Home » est une chanson de folk-rock écossais sur des vallées vides et une question qui ne s'est jamais refermée. Elle remonte aux Highland Clearances, quand on chassa les gens de leurs terres pour faire place aux moutons, et retrouve la même question toujours ouverte aujourd'hui, deux cents ans plus tard. Bâtie sur un rythme de waulking song avec fiddle, tin whistle et bodhrán, la chanson porte une seule ligne en gaélique dans son pont : Tha sinn fhathast ann, nous sommes toujours là. Pas de pathos à la Braveheart, seulement une dignité tranquille et obstinée. Et la vallée se souvient. Fait partie du projet 99 Songs of Love, Peace and Rebellion.
Whose Land Whose Home
There's a glen where the walls stand bare heather growing where the hearth used to share they moved the people, they kept the sheep and left the names for the wind to keep
But the ground remembers what the paper sold every stone in the valley still knows
Whose land, whose hand, whose home we've been asking since they drove us from our own two hundred years and the question stands whose land, whose land, whose land
Now we argue in the pouring rain half of us leaving, half of us staying the same old question, a different year and the glen is still standing here
And the ground remembers what the paper sold every stone in the valley still knows
Whose land, whose hand, whose home we've been asking since they drove us from our own two hundred years and the question stands whose land, whose land, whose land
They took the ground, they banned the tongue but the songs came home and the pipes still sound Tha sinn fhathast ann – we are still here we were never gone, we will not disappear
Whose land, whose hand, whose home we've been asking since they drove us from our own two hundred years and the question stands whose land, whose land, whose land
...and the glen remembers