An Buachaill

As you no doubt know there are so many versions of Scots that it is easy to misunderstand one another. I live in Kent and people expect that if you are Scots you speak like Rab Nesbitt. Being from The Borders that's unlikely.

When the Scottish Parliament opened I lived near Edinburgh and went into town to see the opening ceremony. when the great and the good had gone into the Assembly rooms I headed to a pub called The Hebrides. As the woman MSP started singing A Man's a Man slowly the whole pub joined in and by the end a few tears had been shed.

I would prefer it as an anthem rather than Flower of Scotland, but that's another argument.