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Thread #6566   Message #1023076
Posted By: GUEST,Rosanne
22-Sep-03 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Donald Where's Your Trousers / ...Troosers
Subject: Lyr Add: DONALD, WHERE'S YOUR TROOSERS
The tune is close to drunken sailor but not the same tune at all. Here are the words: (I'll try to stick to the phonetic pronunciation used in the song)


DONALD WHERE'S YOUR TROOSERS?
Words by Andy Stewart, music by Neil Grant, 1960. As recorded by Andy Stewart

1. I've just come down from the Isle of Skye.
I'm no very big an' I'm awful shy,
And the lassies shout when I go by:
"Donald, where's your troosers?"

CHORUS: Let the wind blow high; let the wind blow low.
Through the streets in my kilt I go.
All the lassies say: "Hello!
Donald, where's your troosers?"

2. A lassie took me to a ball,
And it was slippery in the hall,
And I was feart that I would fall,
But I hadnae on my troosers. CHORUS

3. Now I went down to London town,
And I had some fun in the underground.
The ladies turned their heads around,
Saying: [posh English accent:] "Donald where are your trousers?" CHORUS

4. To wear the kilt is my delight.
It is not wrong; I know it's right.
The islanders would get a fright
If they saw me in the trousers. CHORUS

5. The lassies want me, every one.
Well, let them catch me if they can.
Ye cannae take the breeks off a hieland man,
And I don't wear the troosers. CHORUS