On the other side of the holding on to royalties coin, a true tale.
Billy Connolly recorded a song 'Three Men Frae Carntyne'. He sent on the royalty cheque to the Glasgow performer he had heard it from, who said "I only added on a bit" and sent the cheque to a Dunfermline performer he had heard it from, who in turn said "I only added on a bit". A Fife car mechanic whose only other known song is "Who stole the poultice aff the scabby heidit wean?" opened his post one morning to find a cheque for several thousand pounds.
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