Cameron
That Knoydart song was penned by a group called Barclay James Harvest (and therefore sometimes known as just BJH!) who were reasonably well known in the 70s and 80s. I think they've now called it a day, but this song comes from one of their last albums, Caught in the Light, in 1993.
Also on that album is a moving song called Forever Yesterday, all about the Highland clearances, here's some of it :
Talk about a loser, I was just about to go
When someone grabbed me by the arm, a man I did not know
He said he'd been a drover, a member of the clan
With runrig in his very soul, and nowhere left to stand
Now me I'm just a highland boy, a cottar was my trade
He'd seen me at Kildonan when the black face came to stay
He'd oatcakes and he'd whisky and he'd one foot in the grave
For us its over
The Royal George it was that brought the Countess to our door
She wanted us to leave the hills for crofts upon the moor
She took our piece of paradise and left us on the shore
For us its over
They cleared the clans from Strathnaver, the heart of Sutherland
They cleared us from our Highland homes by ship to foreign glens
There's Linton and there's Cheviot and red deer on the bens
For us its over, over, over
My friend
However, one of their most popular songs is simply called Hymn, and begins...Valeys deep and the mountains so high...
