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Thread #174543 Message #4232592
Posted By: Charley Noble
06-Dec-25 - 08:20 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Adam McNaughtan (1939-2025)
Subject: RE: 2025 Obit: Adam McNaughtan
Here's the lyrics to McNaughtan's protest song about replacing townhouses with high rise apartment buildings:
The Jeelie Piece Song (Skyscraper Wean) (Adam MacNaughton)
I'm a skyscraper wean, I live on the nineteenth flair, But I'm no gaun oot to play ony mair, Since we moved to Castlemilk, I'm wasting away, 'Cause I'm getting one less meal every day.
O ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty-story flat, Seven-hundred hungry weans will testify to that, If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan, The odds against it reaching earth and ninety-nine to one.
On the first day my maw flung out a piece o' Hovis brown. It came skyting oot the winda and went up insteid o' doon, But every twenty-seven hours it comes back into sight, 'Cause my piece went into orbit and became a satellite.
One the second day my maw flung me a piece oot once again. It went and hit the pilot in a fast, low-flying plane. He scraped it off his goggles, shouting through the intercom: `The Clydeside Reds have got me wi' a breid-and-jeely bomb!'
One the third day my maw thought she would try another throw. The Salvation Army band was staunin' doon below. `ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS' was the piece they should have played, But the oompah-man was playing a piece-on-marmalade.
We've wrote away tae Oxfam to try and get some aid, And a' the weans in Castlemilk have formed a ``Piece' brigade; We're going to march to George's Square, demanding civil rights, Like `Nae Mair Hooses Over Piece-Flinging Height!'