My take on the lyrics having just listened to it on internet radio:
THE DEAR GREEN PLACE
(Adam McNaughtan)

Chorus:
The Glasgow I belong to is the dear green place
It's the Capital o' Culture, it's a damn disgrace
It's Kelvinside and Calton, pan loaf, plain breid
It's the Tron and the Tramway and the Sarry Heid

I was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow ee-wan [E1]
I made butter in the boattle, jumped the dykes and kicked the can
At dodgie-ball I ducked, at Whitevale* baths I dived
There was naeb'dy then tae tell you that your childhoood was deprived

For my uni education I went over tae the west
Walkin hame frae union dances is the bit that I mind best
Two o'clock in the morning has a magic all its own
Even in the Woodside Road and Dobbie's Loan

I began my teaching in the northern housing scheme
That neighbourhood unit of the corporation's dream
Their plans were well intentioned but tae say the least bizarre
Twenty thoosand drinkers and no a single bar

I've lived on the southside now two decades and a hauf
You can tell the way I'm talking that I've became a toff
It just only goes to show you how one lives and learns
You'd swear I'd been born in Clarksting [Clarkston] or in Newting [Newton] Mearns

Workers' City, Merchant City, Glasgow on the Clyde
It's the workshop of the Empire, East End, Soothside
Frae Castlemilk tae Possil, frae the Drum tae Pruvanmil [Provanmill]
I belong to Glasgow and I always will

*Dennistoun or "Duke Street" Public Baths and Swimming Pool was in Whitevale Street – the next street along from Whitehill Street.

Drum = Drumchapel of course


Regards,Norman