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Thread #40412   Message #3410302
Posted By: Jim McLean
26-Sep-12 - 04:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Glasgow/Scottish drinking songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Glasgow/Scottish drinking songs
A chapman billie was a pedlar of goods going round the houses:
A wheen is an amount:
A pickle is some, not necessarily a couple:
Hurdies is your backside, you sit on your hurdies but not on your loins:
and yes, a lum is the chimney.