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Thread #29295   Message #370124
Posted By: Thyme2dream
06-Jan-01 - 10:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: alt. verses to Hal An Tow
Subject: Lyr Add: HAAL-ANH-TOH (Ian Hall)
(From Calach visiting my babe in Kansas)
Ok, english/cornish wallowers, here's a celtic/gaelic/scottish version, which allowed me to sing it up here and not get pelted with rotten vegetables by an angry anti-southern mob!!!!
Haal-Anh-Toh
By Ian Hall

You'll take no scorn to wear the horn,
It called the clans 'fore you were born.
Your father's father wore it,
And your father wore it too.

What happened to the Romans?
They conquered brave and bold-O
But they couldn't bowl us over,
And they couldn't stand the cold-O

Haal an toh, jolly rumballo,
We were up, long before the day-O
To welcome in the summer time;
To welcome in the day-O
For summer is a comin' in,
And winter's gone away.

We thank the old brave Ossian
Who killed the forest beast-O.
We roasted it and salted it
And bade him join the feast-O.

What happened to the Danish,
As the shores they tried to reach-O.
We watched them sailing on the sea.
And fought them on the beach-O.

We wear the eagles feathers,
And boast of Alba's might-O
And with our brother Albion,
Grant peace by day and night-O.