Lyr Req: 'lift up your kilts' / Wild Rover

Subject: lyrics or song title
From: corporal
Date: 06 Sep 98 - 08:51 AM

Chours goes(?) "No, No, never. Lift up your kilts! No, never, no more" Anyone know?

Subject: RE: lyrics or song title
From: Martin Ryan
Date: 06 Sep 98 - 11:07 AM

The "lift up your kilts" line (and variations) is often used during the chorus of "The Wild Rover", which is in the DT. Comeson three stressed beats after "And its no, nay, never....).

Regards

Subject: RE: lyrics or song title
From: Mo
Date: 06 Sep 98 - 02:27 PM

Or alternatively you could say; "Right up Your Kilt" - but yes, it's a local variation on the traditional hand-claps of the Wild Rover's chorus! Cheers!

Subject: RE: lyrics or song title
From: O'Boyle
Date: 07 Sep 98 - 10:53 PM

Also "Rise up your kilts."

Rick

Subject: RE: lyrics or song title
From: Brack&
Date: 08 Sep 98 - 03:03 AM

Also

"God Bless The Pope" is another I've heard

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'lift up your kilts' / Wild Rover
From: GUEST,Sheerin
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 09:39 AM

I always though they said “light up your guilt”

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'lift up your kilts' / Wild Rover
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 02:33 PM

Lou Killen always said one of her greatest regrets was teaching "The Wild Rover" to the Clancy Brothers -- they added the claps which are NOT traditional. (Okay, okay, the audience likes it.)

Needless to say, "Lift up your kilt!" is also NOT traditional.

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'lift up your kilts' / Wild Rover
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 03:10 PM

In Edinburgh Uni Folk Club (sixties) we clapped four times while we bellowed 'Right up yer kilt!'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'lift up your kilts' / Wild Rover
From: Brian Peters
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 04:04 PM

"Lou Killen always said one of her greatest regrets was teaching "The Wild Rover" to the Clancy Brothers -- they added the claps which are NOT traditional."

Quite correct - Lou did it without the handclaps but with a little riff on the concertina filling the space.

The song went from LK to the Dubliners, and thence to the Clancy Bros. I thought it was the Dubs who introduced the claps, and speeded up the song, as well as replacing Lou's words with a text from Australia.