Thanks, Mick: great song. Wonder how to get hold of the tune. Any ideas?
"Now the men they werena lazy, but the work was hard tae find The Parish and the Means Test they'd to face, But a lassie"s hands are nimble, and a lassie's wage is sma So the women o Dundee worked in their place."
Hence the nickname for Dundee men around a hundred years ago was "kettle boilers ('bilers')"
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