"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.[3][4] The song prominently features Loch Lomond, the largest Scottish loch, located between the council areas of West Dunbartonshire, Stirling and Argyll and Bute. In the Scots language, "bonnie" means "pretty, often in reference to a female.

"Red is the Rose" is a traditional Irish ballad of unknown origin. It's sung to the same tune as "Loch Lomond," and has a similar theme: the sadness of parting with one's lover.

The original composer is unknown, as is definitive information on any traditional lyrics.
Historian Murray G. H. Pittock writes that the song "is a Jacobite adaption of an eighteenth-century erotic song, with the lover dying for his king, and taking only the 'low road' of death back to Scotland."[6] It is one of many poems and songs that emerged from Jacobite political culture in Scotland.

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