"The Road to the Isles" is a famous tune composed by Pipe Major John McLellan DCM which was originally called "The Bens of Jura", although it previously had other titles.
The tune associated with the "Road to the Isles" was an air played by Malcolm Johnson of Barra, on a chanter, and composed by Pipe Major John McLellan of Dunoon (originally titled "The Bens of Jura" and "The Burning Sands of Egypt").
It is said to have been played by Bill Millin, piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, during the first day of the Normandy Landings on D-Day during World War II, during a Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy.
The lyrics mention first the hills of the Isle of Skye (whose memory is calling the traveller west), then the successive locations he will pass on the way across the Western Highlands and Inner and Outer Hebrides.
The locations mentioned are: the Cuillin Hills, Tummel and Loch Rannoch, Lochaber, Shiel, Ailort, Morar, the Skerries (rocky islets – in this case, just off Skye), and the Lews.