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Thread #6566   Message #1144340
Posted By: GUEST
23-Mar-04 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Donald Where's Your Trousers / ...Troosers
Subject: RE: Donald Where's Your Trousers
This is fantastic! My father had his own bagpipe band and played the pipes for 40 years. Due to advancing age and health issues, he has recently retired from it, and is struggling with the loss of his beloved music and band performing.

I am writing a story for him to celebrate his life of bagpipes but am having difficulty finding the lyrics to a few traditional songs that I am referencing in my story. I was at my wit's end to find the lyrics to "Donald," a song I frequently heard during my childhood when my parents played their Andy Stewart records. I searched the Internet till I found this site and here it is!

Thank you all for your intersting commentary.

By the way, I am also looking for the lyrics to:

"Oh, I'm a Scottish fiddler. I fiddle all the day....... Oh, I'll just keep on fiddlin' till the day I die." Andy Stewart sang this, too.

"When the pipes and singing and the kilts are swinging, and the ....the old pipe band.....Hear them ring, hear them sing! They're off....the old pipe band." Traditional filk song.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!