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GUEST,RA Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game (5) RE: Origins: Hurdy Gurdy Flowers in Still Game 21 Feb 23

I found this on a Reddit post by someone called Redbeardidscotsman:

"Hurdy Gurdy is an old Glasgow song which came about after the building of the blocks of flats that replaced the slums. Hurdy Gurdy was the wind blowing in the window boxes as they no longer had gardens. There's a few other songs along these lines, I'm sure there's one that goes "ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat".

The latter song mentioned is, as all Glaswegians ought to know, Adam McNaughtan's 'Skyscraper Wean'.

    Thread closed. Drawing too much Spam. -Joe Offer-


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