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Thread #81689   Message #1498032
Posted By: GUEST, Hamish
02-Jun-05 - 06:10 AM
Thread Name: Different Bummer. What is it?
Subject: RE: Different Bummer. What is it?
Thanks, Mick: great song. Wonder how to get hold of the tune. Any ideas?

"Now the men they werena lazy, but the work was hard tae find
The Parish and the Means Test they'd to face,
But a lassie"s hands are nimble, and a lassie's wage is sma
So the women o Dundee worked in their place."

Hence the nickname for Dundee men around a hundred years ago was "kettle boilers ('bilers')"