"I remember it as if it was yestarday. My papa took me to see the ancentral home of our clan. The desoldate castle on Dismal Downs, abandoned since the 17th centry, Now inhabited by no-one but golden eagles in it's turrets and Ptarmigan & grouse in the heather o'the clan cemetery. In this sight of former glory, of ochre grass and bracken, Sadness and hope, this is where I begin my story. Rannoch moor, 1877, the eve of my 10th birthday..."
Tha'n sgeul ag aiseig bu bràth Toirt taic bho tiotain a tha gar deanamh mar a tha sinn.
Howls on the moor Dreams of sailling all seans Call of the hills And a fiddle of farewell