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Thread #88746 Message #1666970
Posted By: Teribus
12-Feb-06 - 05:41 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Glasgow Song / They're Pullin' Doon...
Subject: Lyr Req: A Glasgow Song
Can anyone help me with the lyrics of a Glasgow Song about the Gorbels. I think the title of the song was "Tearin'Doon The Buildin' Next Tae Oors"
What I can remember of it goes something like this:
Well I am a City Gent, I live in a Tenement In the heart of one of Glasgow's biggest slums Well they're going to improve, so we've been told to move By those mansion dwellin' Corporation Bums
Chorus: And they're tearin' doon the buildin'next tae oors And they're sendin' us tae greenfields, trees and flooers But we do not want tae go and we daily tell them so While they're tearin' doon the buildin'next tae oors
They say they'll realise our dreams in some lovely housin' scheme Where the air out there is always fresh and sweet But we're happy where we are, think we're better off by far Wi' a pub on every corner of the street
Can't remember the other verses but the last verse goes like this
Well they've order us tae quit, and Jings we had tae flit It took six removal vans tae shift the load Aye we moved just yesterday, but its no sae far away Its the buildin' facin' oors across the road