It's not really fair for me to comment too much on the song (I'm a bit biased by my unabashed affection for the author:-))but as I look at it a bit closer, it seems to have that trait I think of as almost uniquely Scottish...the ability to take the tragic, or near tragic things in life, and put them side by side in a song with a good belly laugh!

This one turned out really different from the way you started it Ian, but I like!

Max, lookin forward to 'Coonty Doon' parody...even way out here in the middle of Kansas America, that song is done to death (if you'll pardon the pun!!)