With thanks to Scott Murray and Gifford Lind!

The song appeared on the New Makars Trust’s first album ‘Between the Tay and the Forth’.

Cheap Day Return tae Embra Waverley
(Performed and written by Deryck Foulner)

Chorus
Cheap day return tae Embra Waverley,
Run noo, the train's near awa.
Off tae the hotbed o vice and white slavery.
Innocent Fifers there vanish like snaw.

Trev's oor maister at Aberdour Central
Rising to work half through the night
Short sleeves and bow-tie in snell midwinter,
Amidst the flooers he's quite a sight.

Bay o Dalgety hasnae a station
But you can alight at a railway halt.
Then Inverkeithing and through a tunnel,
You'll smell the Firth and taste the salt.

Iron girders brewed in foundries,
Latticed lights agin the sky,
Linkin lines join two Queensferrys,
Whose highness means we're flying high.

Over the frontier folks look different
You'll need guile tae Market Hay.
Then under the ramparts o the Castle
And journey's end at Waverley.

Last week Sodom, tomorra Gomorra,
Visiting Reekie in between,
Lots o wives to entertain ye,
Show you good times on the scene.