Artist: Dougie MacLean
Author: Dougie MacLean
Label: Plantlife
Year: 1978
With Alan Roberts; album title track. Caledonia stands for Scotland. The song holds a plea for repatriation: "Caledonia you are calling me and now I'm coming home".
Covers:
Frankie Miller [as a single; later used in a commercial for Tennent's Lager]
Amy MacDonald [hidden track on debut album This Is The Life]
Homecoming Scotland cast [Granada TV ad feat Amy MacDonald, Chris Hoy, Brian Cox, Eddi Reader, Sandi Thom, Sean Connery and Lulu, all assembled to come celebrate the 250th anniversary of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)