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Murray on Saltspring Lyr Req: Scottish Breakaway / Coronation Coronach (55* d) Lyr Add: CORONATION CORONACH 17 Dec 98


The words are in a fly-by-night wee book called "The Rebels' Ceilidh Song Book", no date, but around 53 maybe, called "Coronation Coronach", words by Thurso Berwick, tune "The Sash My Father Wore", that old Orange chestnut.Three verses + chorus. In the RCSB no. 2, which has a date (1963), there's a slightly longer version, thus:

O, Scotland hesna got a King,
And hesna got a Queen,
For ye canny hae the saicint Liz
Whan the first yin's never been.

Chorus:
Nae Liz the Twa, nae Lillibet the Wan,
Nae Liz will ever dae,
We'll mak oor land republican
In a Scottish breakaway.

Her man's cried the Duke o Edinbury,
He's wan o the Kiltie Greeks,
O dinna blaw ma Kilts awa,
'Cos Lizzie wears the breeks.

He's a handsome man an he looks like Don Juan,
He's beloved by the weaker sex.
But it disnae really matter a damn,
'Cos it's Lizzie signs the cheques.

Noo her sister Meg's got a bonnie pair o legs,
But she didnae want a German or a Greek,
Pair auld Peter wis her choice, but he didnae suit the boys,
So they sellt him up the creek.

Here, but Meg wis fly an she beat them by an by,
Wi Tony Hyphenated-Armstrong, ding! dong!
But behind the pomp an play, the question o the day
Wis who the hell did Suzy Wong? yum! yum!

Sae here's tae the Lion, the bonny Rampant Lion,
An a lang streetch tae its paw,
Gie a Hampden Roar, an' we're oot the door:
--An ta-ta, ti Chairlie's maw.

[+ cho. of course.]


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