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Thread #91160   Message #3284346
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
03-Jan-12 - 05:31 PM
Thread Name: John Eaglesham - songs & info
Subject: Lyr Add: INVERORAN (John Eaglesham)
Here is Inveroran, which Andymac kindly posted on another thread in 2008. The tune is like "the Man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo".

INVERORAN (John Eaglesham)

Ch.
It's no that faur fae Glesca and it's by Loch Tulla's shore
There's fish in the loch and deer oan the hills and whiles the buzzard's soaring,
Ye go north tae Bridge of Orchy then ye turn left at Beinn Dorain
And there beneath Stob Ghabhar lies Inveroran.

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Inveroran's just the place for you to waste your youth
I'd waste mine there if I had it left and that's the honest rtuth
You pad the hills for hauf an hour to cultivate your drouth
Then you droon it in the bar in Inveroran.
Noo the bar at Inveroran's no the biggest wan I've seen,
I was wis in wi 15 blokes but they were very lean
An ah wance goat telt they'd 50 in wi using Vaseline
Aye it's cosy in the bar at Inveroran

Ch.

Noo the Inveroran culture count it couldne be any higher
Wi ethnic groups and talk about books and drama ? choirs?
And the prince of them gaelic poets, Duncan Ban McIntyre
Used tae tune his Celtic lyre at Inveroran
No Murphy keeps the music gaun, and when he's had some beer
Wi his banjo or melodeon he sings out loud and clear
But the sherry makes him birl his box around about his ears
Then it's time to clear the floor at Inveroran

Ch.

Noo the host at Inveroran is always fine and cheery
His service is quite civil and his price's no that dear
But in a the tents and bothies he's identified quite clear
As the man that watters the beer in Inveroran
Just last year a dreadful smear was cast upon the house
The exciseman arrived and said that Donald was a louse
He'd been selling cooking whisky ootta bottles labelled grouse
He got fined 400 pounds in Inveroran

Ch.

MacNamara climbed Munros until he found his bent
And then he gied the hills a bye and started climbing tents
His best achievement up tae noo's a North Face 1st ascent
O a 1 inch ower ridge in Inveroran
Noo the inveroran midgie is a carnivore elite
With a mouth like Jaws and teeth like saws that grind ye till ye greet
Wi an ice axe in his oxter and tricounis on his feet
He goes hunting human meat in Inveroran

Ch.

Outward bounders fair abound fae early in the day
They swarm through inveroran oan this new West Highland Way
They carry packs like tower blocks, I don't know whit they weigh
But they've a' got bowly legs by Inveroran
Noo ye've heard me tell about the place I like sae well
Go or stay away its up entirely tae yersel
But the next time I've got time aff I can confidently tell,
I'll be stepping out like hell for Inveroran

Ch