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Thread #62906   Message #4223949
Posted By: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
09-Jun-25 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: La Bamba
Subject: RE: Origins: La Bamba
I used the tune and referenced the words for a song that got into the final of a songwriting competition. I have told in a couple of places how the formerly obscure Mexican folksong was suddenly top of the Hit Parade when the final was held, so I was marked down for lack of originality
My song, in Glesca langwidge, started thus:

Tam, yer a bampot
Yer the original bampot
Ye think that yer clever but yer not
Yer just a bampot bampot

Ye tap hard men for fivers
Then ye forget tae pay then
So you get me to cool them
Then ye try them out for anither five
It's a wonder tae me that you survive
You are a bampot bampot

Etc
Ewan