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Thread #115087   Message #2460250
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
08-Oct-08 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: Verse in Donald Where's Your Troosers?
Subject: RE: Verse in Donald Wheres yer troosers?
It doesn't scan precisely, but it seems fine idiomatically.


Copied from another thread:
I just come down from the Isle of Skye
I'm no very big but I'm awfly shy
All the lassies shout as I walk by
"Donald, Where's your troosers

Let the wind blow hish and the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I go
All the lassies say "Hello!
Donald, where's your troosers"

I went to a fancy ball
It was slippery in the hall
I was afeared that I might fall
Because I nay had troosers

I went down to London town
To have a little fun in the underground
All the lassies turned their heads around, saying,
"Donald, where's your trousers?"

The lassies love me every one
Let them catch me if they can
You canna put the brakes on a highland man, saying,
"Donald, whre's your troosers.

There does not appear a standard to the scansion anywhere!

Cheers
Nigel