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Thread #22692   Message #2124594
Posted By: GUEST,Jack
13-Aug-07 - 04:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The Barras (Jim McLean)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the barras
Maybe it's stupid to reawake this again, but I found it better to use the old thread. At the net if found another version. Here: http://www.theballadeers.com/Lyrics_B2.htm (Scroll down a bit)

Even though, the version I've heard with Alastair McDonald, is a mix of them both. Like this:

There's a spot in Glasgae city that's well ken't the whole world o'er.
It's mair famous than the Mona Lisa's face.
It is visited by royalties and rascals by the score.
Everybody knows the Barras is the place.
Did you knaw St. Peter lost the keys to yon big pearly gates
And he feart that he'd get flung oot o' his job
Then a fly wee Glasgae angel said, ach Peter dinnae greet
You can buy one at the barras for a bob

Oh the barras, oh the barras, there's no in Rome or Paris
Ye juist hae tae gae tae Glasgow's Gallowgate
They sell tickets tae the moon, and a return for half-a-croon
And five bob guarantees a first class seat

You knaw how Samson lost his strength, Delilah cut his hair
He was left as weak and baldy as a wean
So he flitterd (?) oot tae Glasgae, tae the barras for a cure
And he soon was strong and hairy once again
When the Romans came tae Scotland, many donkeys years ago
They got nae further than the Gallowgate
For the lads who ran the Barras swapped them souvenirs for swords
Then the fly wee Glasgow keelies had them bate

Oh the barras, oh the barras, there's no in Rome or Paris
Ye juist hae tae gae tae Glasgow's Gallowgate
They sell tickets tae the moon, and a return for half-a-croon
And five bob guarantees a first class seat

Nou one day a Frenchman noticed that the Eiffel touer (it sounds like Toon, though) was gone
The president when notified grew pale
So he called oot all his gendarmes and they searched the hail world oer
And they foond it at the barras oot for sale
Noo before I close my story i will gi'e you some advice
If you're efter something cheap or second-hand
Take a trip up to the barras for there's none that can compare
Tae the stuff they sell in Glasgow's barraland!


Now, what is the real version? On the link I found, there is 2 verses more, are these original, or fake? Anyone knows what was the first original recording?