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Caledonia (song)
Caledonia is a modern Scottish folk ballad written by Dougie MacLean in 1977.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/dougie-maclean-is-amazed-at-the-continuing-success-1400076 )〕 The chorus of the song features the lyric "Caledonia, you're calling me, and now I'm going home",〔(See the lyrics here )〕 the term "Caledonia" itself being a Latin word for Scotland. The song became the most popular of all MacLean's recordings and something of an anthem for Scotland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scotland's Songs: Caledonia )〕 "Caledonia" has been covered by a great number of artists.
== Composition ==
MacLean wrote the song in less than 10 minutes on a beach in Brittany, France,〔(BBC Radio | Caledonia: A Love Song to a Nation )〕 feeling homesick for Scotland. He said: “I was in my early 20s and had been busking around with some Irish guys. I was genuinely homesick. I’d always lived in Perthshire. I played it to the guys when I got back to the youth hostel where we were staying and that was the final straw – we all went home the next day." He adds: "It took about 10 minutes but sometimes that’s how songs happen. I’m still amazed at how much it has become part of common culture. There’s not a pub singer, busker or pipe band that doesn’t play it." The song is very similar in its sentiments to a much earlier song called "Jean and Caledonia".〔Robert Ford, ''Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland'' (one-volume edition, 1904), pp. 237–239, "Jean and Caledonia"〕
"Caledonia" was first recorded by its writer Dougie MacLean and published in his 1979 album that also carried the title ''Caledonia''.〔(Rock and roll years: the 1970s – Scotsman.com News )〕 The original was performed on the album by MacLean and Alan Roberts.
MacLean plays the song in the key of E using Open C tuning with a capo on the 4th fret.
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