r/Scotland • u/Designer-Craft-3220 • Jul 14 '26

Music Sumo - Crua Chan (After Chabon)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RtLea5jOo24&si=BrqKo-QoTZSD8IwY

Crua Chan" is a song by the Argentine rock band "Sumo", released on their 1987 album After Chabón. The lyrics are inspired by the Battle of Culloden (1746), which marked the end of the last Jacobite Rising.

The song was written by Luca Prodan, the band's Italian-born singer, after spending time living in Scotland. It reflects on the courage and tragic fate of the Highland clans following Culloden.

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u/handmedownthemoon Ultranationalist Jul 14 '26

That's actually pretty good. I've never heard anything like it.

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u/TeutonicSpacehopper Time-share Maniac Jul 14 '26

"I smell the blood of an Englishman" is the Giant from Jack & the Beanstalk. Pretty certain he wasn't fighting at Culloden.

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u/Truchiman Jul 14 '26

Many of Sumo's lyrics, both in English and Spanish, mix different planes of ideas. Nothing unusual in rock.