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Thread #76340   Message #1351836
Posted By: Scabby Douglas
09-Dec-04 - 06:48 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Dear Green Place (Adam McNaughtan)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Glasgow I belong to .. dear green place
I think that chorus goes something like:

"O the Glasgow I belong to,
it's the Dear Green Place;
it's the Capital of Culture,
it's a dampt disgrace;
from Kelvinside to ?Giffnock?
Pan loaf, Plain Breid
It's the Tron, it's the Tramway,
and the (pause)....
Sarry Heid."

A friend of mine sings it, but that's all I can remember.

Notes:

dampt - a refined-ish way of saying "damned"
Capital of Culture - Glasgow was the European Cultural Capital in 1990 (I think)
Pan loaf / Plain breid - new, pretentious/ traditional, no-nonsense
Tron - theatre in converted former church
Tramway - huge performance space in former Tram depot
Sarry Heid - the Saracen Head - in Gallowgate - on of the oldest pubs in Glasgow