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Thread #25744 Message #3002723
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Oct-10 - 02:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I'm Asking You Sergeant, Where's Mine?
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Joe, the words are 'pains' and 'wanes' in the Connolly song. A rhyme.
Not 'weans'.
Moreover, lines are altered from the Glasgow Scots dialect.
"Like drinkin' wi' squaddies and bullin' my boots" etc. etc.