In the mid 1950' letter boxes with the logo E II R started to appear on the streets of Scotland. Scottish Nationalists took exception to them as they pointed out (correctly), that she wasn't the second Queen Elizabeth of Scotland, but the first. So a few boxes were vandalised, and this song was the result. The author Thurso Berwick, was actually Morris Blythman, a French teacher, at an up market Glasgow school called Allan Glen's



SKY-HIGH JOE
( Tune : The Overgate )
Thurso Berwick

O, Sky-High Joe wis on the go, some gelignite tae buy,
So he goes tae the Carron Iron Works tae get a guid supply:

Cho
Ricky doo dum day, doo dum day, Ricky dicky doo dum day.

"O Ah want it for a special job, and Ah want the real Mackay,
Are ye shair yuir gelignite ignites?" - an the foreman says: "Och Ay!"

When the Pillar Box sees Sky-High Joe, it blenches deidly pale;
"Staun back, staun back, wi yuir hair sae black, for Ah dinnae want yer airmail"

But Sky-High Joe wis on the go, he wis oot to mak' some news,
And so he posts his "Coupon", wi' a yaird o' fizzin' fuse:

As he wandered back across the road, he tellt the cops "Good night!
Ah wadna stand sae near the box, for yon wis gelinite."

A minute later aff it went, wi' a flashing an' a thump,
An noo they've carried the bits awa' tae the Corporation Dump:

The bottom bit wis staunin there, aa ragged-edged an sherp,
But the lid wis in St. Peter's hauns - he wis playin it like a herp:

They say that on the followin' day, pit there tae get their rag,
Upon the mound o rubble, wis a wee bit Scottish Flag: