WHAUR WILL WE GANG
(words: Karine Polwart & Alan Reid; music:Karine Polwart)

Note: The following lyrics & notes are transcribed from liner notes of Battlefield Band's "Happy Daze" CD (Temple Records, COMD2085)

Chorus: Ee-oh ma dearie-o, whaur will we tarry-o
    If we are tae marry-o, whaur will we gang?

1) We could walk along the Seine
Paris in the April rain
Say the magic words "Je t'aime"
Monsieur and Madame
I hear what you're sayin' flower
Love below the Eiffel Tower
But I get crabbit in a shower
It's just the way I am
   
2) Let's go tae some Polynesian Island
Where it's never freezin'
Lovers wed there every season
By the coral sea
But I'm a' peely-wally white
And my bikini's gettin' tight
And you are no' a bonny sight
In trunks a size too wee.

3) Maybe we are gonna
Get married in Verona
You can be my Romeo
And I'll be Juliet
It didnae turn oot awfy well
They never heard their wedding bells
For they're the pair that kilt theirsels
Gonnae no' dae that!

4) We maun take the maist and least
Feast or famine tae oor breist
Whether we go West nor East
Matters nocht tae me
The world stretches far and wide
And I don't care whaur we bide
As long as you are by my side
Happy we will be

From liner notes: "Karine and Alan had great fun trying to come up with the daftest line for this song. Which line is it and whose line is it anyway? ...the punchline on verse 4, 'Gonnae no' dae that!' is on everyone's lips in Scotland now as the resut of being used in BBC Scotland's comedy sketch show 'Chewin' the Fat' starring Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill."

Transcriber's note: As ye micht guess, this sang is a dialogue, wi the fairst hauf o ilka vairse sang by ane lover an the second hauf o ilka vairse bein a response o sairts. The timin is a bit o a challenge-- best tae cock yir lugs at the recordin afore ye attempt it yersel. Och, & Ah cannae figger the Scots dialect in this sang-- it seems tae gae rovin aff wi'oot wairnin. That said, tis aye a guid sang an muckle fun tae sing!

   --Cuilionn