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Thread #36698   Message #508395
Posted By: Wolfgang
17-Jul-01 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Scottish MPs
Subject: Scottish MPs
I have an old tape with songs sung by Alastair McDonald. All of the songs are more or less explicit an advice to vote for the SNP (Scottish national party) in an election at least 25 years ago. Maybe none of these songs will (should) survive but I'll post one anyway. The lyrics are my transcription but with the exception of the line with the names (in verse 3) they should be close to correct.

Wolfgang

SCOTTISH MPs
(Tune: The merry ploughboy, Off to Dublin in the green)

Oh I am a Scottish MP
from a City grey and black,
so I'll shut my mouth when I'm in the South
just in case they send me back.
Now some folks work for Labour
And some for the Tory class
But I work like Hell for me myself
And the rest can kiss my kilt.

Chorus: For I'm off to London in the morn, in the morn,
in Westminster I will be,
and I leave behind my brains and mind
and try for an MBE.

Oh Scotland, dearest Scotland
you have given me your trust
and if I make the grade to the Board of Trade
just guess who'll I trade first.
I will trade the Lowlands for a peerage,
give me an Earldom for the Isles
and the whole damn glut(?) could be easily bought
with one of Lizzie's smiles.

Oh, I am a Scot's Home Ruler,
but at my English Queen's command,
for my real birthright is to be a knight
and the rest can be Republicans.
So, come Grimmond, Hume, and Rumsey, Mac,
our Scottish Englishmen,
nationality for a Scot's MP
means tea at number 10.