GOVAN BILLIARD HALL SONG
(Roddy McMillan)

Now Govan is a busy place upon a Friday night,
And the billiard halls down there are busy too,
An' there's many a strongly fancied lad been rattled in a fight,
For fiddlin' wi' the colours and the cue.

CHORUS:Oh don't stan' and look aroon when the cues are upside doon,
And the balls are flying fast from far and near,
For whether you're tae blame, ye'd be better aff at hame,
When they're handing out the stitches in your ear.

Now 'twas on a certain Friday I went down to a saloon,
For I'd heard some fancy things about this dive,
So I moved up to a table where two lads were trying hard,
To win three sets of snooker out of five.

There were nearly three score Govan boys wi' bunnets tae the fore,
Standing round upon the benches looking grim,
For the word had got around that one lad was two sets down,
And his chances now were getting rather slim.

One half of this mob had bet their dough upon the losing guy,
And the rest were on the boy whose game was made,
But the leary, losing punters knew that when the game was by,
The other mob just weren't getting paid.

Now the cool-dab lad, the winning boy, was lined up for the kill,
He was sticking home the points in fives and threes,
When the losing rascal calls, as he jiggles up the balls
'That's all, the gem's a bogie if you please!'

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(tune from AlfW)