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Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)

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A MAN'S A MAN FOR ALL THAT
COMIN' THRO THE RYE
COMIN' THROUGH THE DYE
COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE
MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED, RED ROSE
NOW WESTLIN WINDS
RANTIN` ROVIN` ROBIN
SILVER TASSIE
THE GALLANT WEAVER


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Monologue John 21 Jan 25 - 04:44 AM
Gallus Moll 23 Jan 25 - 08:24 PM
Joe Offer 23 Jan 25 - 11:46 PM
Black belt caterpillar wrestler 24 Jan 25 - 04:58 AM
GUEST,keberoxu 24 Jan 25 - 09:32 AM
Tattie Bogle 24 Jan 25 - 05:17 PM
GUEST,Julia L 30 Jan 25 - 07:31 PM
GUEST,.gargoyle 30 Jan 25 - 08:48 PM
Black belt caterpillar wrestler 31 Jan 25 - 04:42 AM
Tattie Bogle 31 Jan 25 - 02:41 PM
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Subject: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis
From: Monologue John
Date: 21 Jan 25 - 04:44 AM

Address to the Haggis by Robert Burns

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang ‘s my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whissle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.
Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 08:24 PM

Yayyyy!!!!
As ever,I've been (and am!) in the throes of Burns Supper Season.
I enjoy Addressing the Haggis, as well as singing some of his 300+ songs, some composed by him, others he collected. I often have a speech to deliver - The Immortal Memory, Reply to 'The Lassies, Toast to Scotia etc.
As a child, I heard my father practising his speeches, poems, songs in preparation for the numerous Burbs Suppers he attended ......a lot of that rubbed off on me?
Love Robert Burns!
xxxxxxx


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 11:46 PM

This is making me hungry...


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 24 Jan 25 - 04:58 AM

Somewhere I have the words where I would proclaim a verse in a terrible fake Scot's accent and Anne, my wife, would give a humerous translation into English.

Robin


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 25 - 09:32 AM

It's that time of year again.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 24 Jan 25 - 05:17 PM

One of our local worthies has perfected the art of slashing the haggis deeply with his trusty dirk or sgian dubh or even a claymore, and managing to retrieve it from the centre of the haggis with just enough haggis on the blade to flick it backwards in several blobs down the wall behind him!
Gle mhath!


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 30 Jan 25 - 07:31 PM

Given the kerfuffle over the inclusion of Thomas Hardy's poems on another thread, why is there no objection to this contribution? It is not, in fact, a song (at least I have never heard it sung) Has anyone?
J


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 30 Jan 25 - 08:48 PM

Good Lord - blessed folk.
We all know it has no "rolled oat."
Please post the recipe.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

After butchering my neighbor's pet ewe ... what am I to do?


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 04:42 AM

It may not be a song but it is definately a tradition.

Robin


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Address to The Haggis (Burns)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 02:41 PM

Haha! Robin! The Scottish spelling of definitely! Here in Scotland, it is very often pronounced definaytely!

The Selkirk Grace, which is also recited at Burns Suppers after the Address to Haggis ritual and immediately before eating, has been set to music by Scottish singer/songwriter Ian Walker, and various verses with a definite message added:
Some Hae Meat - Ian Walker


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