[access-uk] Re: What's it mean
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- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:09:26 +0100
And lang may yer lum reek, George!
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of George Bell
Sent: 25 August 2005 12:08
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: What's it mean
Muckle = impressive, large.
Sichts = Sights.
o' = of.
Glesca = Glasgow.
"The impressive sights if Glasgow"
Have a "braw bricht moonlicht night"
George.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Logue
> Sent: 25 August 2005 05:47
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] What's it mean
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
>
> "the muckle sichts o' Glesca"
>
> As heard on Ma Big Kilmarnock Bunnet. See below for listen
> link and lyrics.
> http://www.sightconnections.com/MyBigKilmarnockBunnet.m3u
>
>
> Ma Big Kilmarnock Bunnet
>
> Fin I was aff to leave the ploo I said to Fairmer Broon,
The
> money that I hae workit for Will you kindly lay it doon,
This
> very day I mean to be In Glesca toon by half past three,
I've
> been a o'er lang a gackie in the country.
>
> Chorus:
> Wae ma big Kilmarnock Bunnet As I ran to catch the train,
> I'll never forget the trick that was played on me by Sandy
> Laing, He said "mind Jock when ye get tae the toon speir
ye
> for Katie Bain, ma Loon, she bides at number eighty street
in Glesca."
> Chorus:
>
> Now, when I stepped down off the train the first young man
I
> met, I speired at him quite cheerily, "can ye show me
eighty street,"
> He says, "Dae ye tak me fur a mug" wae that he got me on
the
> lug, And said, "Young man, ye'll meet yer match in
Glesca."
> Chorus:
>
> I met up wae a bonny lass dressed in a strippet frock, She
> said tae me right cheekily, "Hello is that you, Jock?
> Yer big Kilmarnock's awfy plum come oan and staun us a
doddle
> o' rum, And I'll show tae you the muckle sichts o'
Glesca."
> Chorus:
>
> Now the lassie in the strippet frock and her neebur Katie
> Bain, As long as I live I hope that I will never see them
> again, They left me wae ma breeks and shirt and big
> Kilmarnock covert wae dirt, Wae rowin in the muckle
streets o' Glesca.
> Chorus:
>
>
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