San Diego Scottish Highland Games
The Declaration of Arbroath, is without a doubt the most precious and treasured historical document in the National Archives of Scotland. Our own Declaration of independence was modeled after the Declaration of Arbroath. The document was written in 1320 as a request to the Pope for Scotland to be recognized as an independent nation. The […]
words and music (c) 2013, Jeanne McDougall People come from many different lands We share one world, together hand in hand But if you see something special in the shining Scottish sky There’s a reason and you’ll know it when I tell you why …. There’s a wee bit o’ Scot in us all There’s
A man’s still a man to me Arbroath made it right to be free The voices of freedom are calling to me Saying stand for the free soil of Scotland Be it land of your heart, or the land of your birth It was right from the start, and it spread o’er the Earth Their
The Tartan The fighting sheen of it; the yellow, the green of it; The black, the red of it, every thread of it. The fair have signed for it; the brave have died for it; Foeman sought for it; heroes fought for it; Honor the name of it; drink to the fame of it –
Long, long ago – when the Scotland was invaded by Viking forces, there was a young Norse warrior named Breakan who fell in love with a local beauty. When the couple told the maiden’s father of their desire to marry, he was not happy to think of a union between his only child and the