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Thread #5264 Message #2206588
Posted By: GUEST,Brian
01-Dec-07 - 09:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Gordon for Me (Robert Wilson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Gordon for Me - scottish folk song
There is another song that Robert Wilson sang praising the Gordons. I saw him singing it in the Aberdeen Tivoli when I was wee boy in the early sixties. It is called "Here's to the Gordons". I camea across the original sheey music of it and gave it to the Gordon Highlanders Regimet museum in Aberdeen. The song went:
As I was slowly walking in Aberdeen one day I saw the Gordons marching in tartan green and grey. Beside me stood a lassie nae higher than my knee And when the Gordons passed us by that lassie said to me - Here's to the Gordons the etc, etc