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GUEST,John Orford	Lyr Req: I'm 94 Today (Will Fyffe) (9)	Lyr Req: I'm 94 Today (Will Fyffe)	30 Aug 14
Well, I'm glad this turned up. It's on YouTube as "I'm ninety four this morning", along with "If Scotland turns Republic". Will Fyffe would be be glad if it does, bless him. I tend to sing "I belong tae Glesca" in Glesca dialect, but it's not authentic. Fyffe sings it in a well-nigh English dialect - presumably no-one could have understood Glesca back in the pre-Connolly days. By the way, I had a teacher during the war who used to sing the chorus of 94. Now he'd come back to teaching at 75 to help out with the shortage. So he was born just before 1870 and it was almost certain he'd have been a pupil-teacher in the days before the Act of 1892.

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