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Thread #40412   Message #798346
Posted By: GUEST
07-Oct-02 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Glasgow/Scottish drinking songs
Subject: Lyr Add: SCOTCH WHISKY (Jim McLean)
How about 'SCOTCH WHISKY' which I wrote for a 'teuchter' LP some time long ago. It's to the tune 'Hielan'Chorus'.

There's wine frae France wad mak ye dance,
An' German Schnapps is risky;
The Danish beer gets rid o' fear,
But I prefer Scotch Whisky!

CHORUS: A gless o' guid Scotch Whisky, boys,
How golden does it sparkle;
Ah widnae gi'e a hauf a gill
For a' yer foreign gargle.
Cimaree, cimarara, cimaro;
Cimaree, cimara, cimarorus,
Cimaree, cimara, cimarachio,
An' that's the whisky chorus.

If Johnny smith should tak a drink,
His wife kicks up a shindy;
If she were mine, upon my life,
Ah'd kick her oot the windae!
CHORUS:

Some holy folk condemn the drink,
An damn ye three times over,
But Ah'd rather be a drunk in Hell
Than sober wi' Jehovah.
CHORUS:

For claes or gold Ah dinna care,
The savin' o' it's risky,
So lift yet glass, tak aff yer dram
An' drink tae guid Scotch Whisky!
CHORUS:

Not quite PC for nowadays.
Slainte, Jim McLean