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Thread #156006 Message #3675191
Posted By: GUEST,Paul - Carlton
06-Nov-14 - 04:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Jock the Can (Battlefield Band)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jock the Can -Battlefield Band
Thanks, I've got the song (I downloaded the album because I'd only got the Vinyl) but I can't make out some of the dialect words. My provisional attempt was
Jock the Can would sing ye an old song
And when he'd done he'd fee his hand
He would stand, just waiting for something
Like a drink or a cobber or two in his hand
Cos them that ignored old John
And gathered and tasted to hell
And some took him in for a bit of a meal
Sit doon by the fire John
For you're just an old man that's wandered and gone
Aye, you carry the can and you're wandered and gone
The bits I can't decipher are
he'd fee his hand
or a cobber or two in his hand
And gathered and tasted to hell