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Thread #120595   Message #2727573
Posted By: Barbara
20-Sep-09 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Show Us Your Haggis? / The Haggis
Subject: Lyr Add: THE HAGGIS (Stuart Clyde & David Clifford
Hey, guess what? My brother's wife, Melanie, who plays bagpipes in the Juneau AK pipe band scored the words (and chords but not the proper placement, but I bet you can figure them out) from the authors. Here ya go --

THE HAGGIS

(Stuart Clyde & David Clifford)

[chanted]
Show us your haggis, Show us your haggis
[first line of Scotland the Brave on guitar, starting on C#]
Show us your haggis, Show us your haggis


A D A E
Well Scotland's got a dance for you, it's funky and it's new,
A D E A
So don yer kilts and fill yer boots, we're bringing it to you
A D A E
You can do it on yer own, in pairs or do it in a crowd,
A D E A
But wherever you do it, you gotta do it proud.


Chorus:
[chanted]
Show us your haggis, Show us your haggis
A D
Show us your haggis, raise your right arm to the sky,
A E
Stand on one leg, flip it round and shout "och aye"
A D
Saltire for Scotland, and hoik it to the right,
E A
And grab yer neebor's shoulder, and nessie through the night.


[chanted]
Show us your haggis, Show us your haggis
[first line of Scotland the Brave on guitar, starting on C#]
From Land's End to John o'Groats or from across the sea
Just take the high road or the low 500 miles to me
Then we would walk 500 more to bring this song today
'Oh what fun it is to do the haggis all the way'


Chorus


With Bonnie Charlie's raised right arm and left foot to his knee
The haggis was invented proudly for the world to see
Yer sister and yer mammy even Auntie Mary too
Now raise their arms and cock their legs and shout 'och aye the noo'


Chorus


[bridge]
A G
Picts and Celts and Jacobites and William Wallace too
F# E
All fought with pride and courage for freedom for me and you
A G
The wars would've been avoided and the enemy'd have fled
F# E
If 50,000 kilted Celts just haggissed them instead

[Chant "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" on second line of bagpipe break]
[bagpipes continue through next verse]

When we lose at football, or when it rains all year
We don't get too disheartened we just don our haggis gear
But if you think the nation's crazy just remember this
In these clothes and this red nose you'll get a Glasgow kiss

Chorus

Chorus

Blessings,
Barbara