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Campbeltown Loch

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Type
  
Sea Loch

Frozen
  
No

Surface elevation
  
Sea Level

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Location
  
Kintyre peninsula, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

Coordinates
  
, grid reference NR 74519 20503

Basin countries
  
Scotland, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Davaar Island, Kintyre, Aros Park, Broch of Mousa, RNAS Hatston

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Campbeltown Loch (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Chille Chiarain) is a small sea loch near the south of the Kintyre Peninsula facing eastwards towards the Firth of Clyde. The town of Campbeltown, from which it takes its name, is located at its head. The island of Davaar is located in the loch, and can be reach by foot along a natural shingle causeway at low tide. Oddly, while in English the Loch takes its name from Campbeltown, in Gaelic, Campbeltown takes its name from the loch - "Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain".

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The song

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The loch is immortalised in the folk song of the same name, repopularized by Andy Stewart in the 1960s. In the song (see below) the writer Alan Cameron expresses his desire that the loch be full of whisky. The basis of that ballad is that Campbeltown was originally a centre of whisky distilling but that the price of whisky in Campbeltown itself was too high.

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Chorus: Oh! Campbeltown Loch, Ah wish ye were whisky! Campbeltown Loch, Och Aye! Campbeltown Loch, I wish ye were whisky! Ah wid drink ye dry.
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Now Campbeltown Loch is a beautiful place, But the price of the whisky is grim. How nice it would be if the whisky was free And the Loch was filled up to the brim.
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I'd buy a yacht with the money I've got And I'd anchor it out in the bay. If I wanted a nip I'd go in for a dip I'd be swimmin' by night and by day.
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We'd have a gathering of the clans They'd come from near and far I can see them grin as they're wading in And shouting "Slàinte mhath!". But what if the boat should overturn And drowned in the whisky was I? You'd hear me shout, you'd hear me call out "What a wonderful way to die !" But what's this I see, ochone for me It's a vision to make your blood freeze. It's the police afloat in a dirty great boat And they're shouting: "Time, gentlemen, please!"

Campbeltown Loch is sung to a march written for the bagpipes, The Glendaruel Highlanders.

References

Campbeltown Loch Wikipedia
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