Belle sang it as "Just tae give Alex a warning...."
and it was Alex that interrupted with a mumbled "That's a bliddy lie" after the line "Oh! of whisky I ne'er was a lover." ....and note the spelling, this is not about that fake Irish or American stuff. When I was a boy the adults in my extended family ask me to promise that I would never drink whisky with an "e" in it.

Going back five and a half years to Jim Carroll's post of 21 May 08 - 11:30 AM, I was a great fan of practically everything that the Stewarts did, but I was horrified that they presented a song about domestic abuse as a comedy song.