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Thread #61242   Message #4049729
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
01-May-20 - 07:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: pipe song/groovers song 'My Home?'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: pipe song/groovers song 'My Home?'
Well, answering my own request of 09.01.19, here are the lyrics of "Good Looking Widow" which is sung to the tune of "Mo Dhachaidh" (My Home). We have the tune in a dance set as a waltz, and I always have a wee giggle when we lay it, thinking of the song!
Anne Neilson kindly gave me the words a few months before she passed away, sadly: she used to song it with great gusto!

The Good Looking Widow                                             (the second verse is often used as a chorus)

I’m a good looking widow, no wonder you’ll stare
I’ve had four men already, as soon as you’re there
And oh for anither my hert it is sair
But I’ll get number five in the morning

An’ ye ken I’m good looking an’ handsome an’ braw
An’ though I’m a widow that’s naething at a’
An’ if some bonny laddie will tak me awa
Then I’ll be his bride in the morning

An’ the first man I had was a tailor ca’d John
He was a toff an’ a swell an’ a don
He’d a wart on his neck where his collar gaed on
That he used for a stud in the morning

The next man I had was a baker tae trade
He was a loafer an’ very low bred
I ne’er met wi’ a man half so fond o’ his bed
For he widnae rise in the morning

Number three – what was he? Oh yes, he was a man
He was some fond o’ me, but mair fond o’ a dram
So our married life didnae last very long
For he was still drunk in the morning

And the last man I had, a nightwatchman was he
He slept a’ day an’ so never wi’ me
I was just as weel single – I wished he would dee
Then I’d get number five in the morning