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03 May 01 - 05:45 AM (#454560) Subject: the Glesca eskimos From: Lyndi-loo Does any one have the lyrics to the Glesca Eskimos? It was written by TS Law in the sixties to protest against American nuclear submarines coming to the Clyde and begins "Hello hello we are the eskimos, hello hello the Glesca eskmos..." the same writer (I think) also wrote a song called Ghost tigers in the Sky about the Duke of Edinburgh shooting tigers in India while president of the World Wildlife Fund so if anyone knows the words to that also, I'd be grateful |
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03 May 01 - 06:55 AM (#454587) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: Scabby Douglas I suspect that occasional Mudcatter Ewan McVicar would be the man for this enquiry I'll check elsewhere, though.. Cheers SD |
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03 May 01 - 07:56 PM (#455249) Subject: Lyr Add: THE GLASGOW ESKIMOS (T S Law / T Berwick) From: Susanne (skw) I have most of the words (from a tape made some years ago at the 'Glesca Eskimos' revue written by Gordon McCulloch for the Glasgow International Folk Festival - when it still existed ...), but some of them are simply beyond me. Lyndi-loo, maybe if I post what I have you could help me get the rest (or Ewan, who was there?): THE GLASGOW ESKIMOS (T. S. Law / Thurso Berwick) Chorus: Hullo! Hullo! We are the Eskimos Hullo! Hullo! The Glasgow Eskimos We'll get that Yankee Lanin (We'll gaff that nyaff ca'd Lanin?) And we'll speir him whaur he blows We are the Glasgow Eskimos It's up the Clyde came Lanin, that super-duper Yank He'll get oot a damn sight quicker when we stap him doon the stank Up tae the neck in sludge and sewage fairly stops your swank For we are the Glasgow Eskimos Well it's in an' oot an' up an' doon an' on an' aff the pier There's cooncillors, collaborators, pimps and profiteers The ? stooped ? the polis, and the polis stooped ? the queers We are the Glasgow Eskimos ? ? ? We are the Glasgow Eskimos We've been in mony's a rammy, boys, we've been in mony's a tear We've ? So get your ? ready, boys, they're comin' up for air We are the Glasgow Eskimos Sung to 'Marching Through Georgia' |
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04 May 01 - 04:08 AM (#455525) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: Lyndi-loo Thanks Susanne, that's a great help We'll gaff that nyaff ca'd Lanin sounds familiar. I think that is the right line. |
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04 May 01 - 04:44 PM (#455992) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: Susanne (skw) I think I got these lines from a book, but some didn't tally with what I understood on the tape. I also have an older version on an album of protest songs from the era, but that's even less possible to understand ... |
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04 May 01 - 05:46 PM (#456035) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: jacko@nz The world seemed simpler then It's up the Clyde comes Lanin, a super-duper Yank But doon a damn sight quicker when we coup him doon the stank Up tae the neck in sludge and sewage fairly stops your swank We are the Glesca Eskimos Hullo! Hullo! We are the Eskimos Hullo! Hullo! The Glesca Eskimos We'll gaff that nyaff ca'd Lanin We'll spear him whaur he blows We are the Glesca Eskimos
Well it's in an' oot an' up an' doon an' on an' aff the piers |
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04 May 01 - 06:06 PM (#456059) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: jacko@nz The memory grows dim.....Polaris may or may not have been a nuclear sub, it was a missile system. 'Proteus' was definitely a sub involved in the affair. jack |
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06 May 01 - 05:31 PM (#456556) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: Susanne (skw) I think that's correct: Polaris was the system installed on the Proteus which was atationed in the Holy Loch. Thanks for the lyrics, jack! I'll check if they tally with what I've got. |
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07 May 01 - 04:06 AM (#456804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: Lyndi-loo Thanks a million everyone; just what I needed. Now how about "Ghost tigers in the sky" This starts... There wiz a meetin in the jungle and everyone had came, to sympathize with the tiger who would soon be Royal game this is sung to the tune of Ghost Riders in the Sky |
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07 May 01 - 12:21 PM (#457003) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the Glesca eskimos From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar Ghost Tigers was as I recall a Jim MacLean composition, printed in one of the earlier editions of Rebel Ceilidh Songbook. Eskimos was rewritten / updated in the 80s - "We're no husky Ruskis, as Maggie might suppose" and issued on a cassette of the SCND Buskers with accompanying booklet. However life is too pressured for me to dig out booklets and toil away at typing the words. Ask me again in 2004! |