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Thread #40412   Message #578388
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
23-Oct-01 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Glasgow/Scottish drinking songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Glasgow/Scottish drinking songs
Several from Burns, but my favourites include "SILVER TASSIE" and the one from "The Jolly Beggars" - best sung with a passable impression (or reality) of being one-over-the-eight -

[PECK O' MAUT]

"We're nae that fu', we're nae that fu',
But just a drappie in the 'ee,
The cock may craw, the day may daw',
But I will hae (drink?) the barley bree"

Tattie B