The Scottish Holiday

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So you think you're gaein' tae the north to spend a holiday,
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cause you're vaguely Scottish on your mither's side,
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and you've heard of ancient glories, both renowned in song and story,
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kilts and haggis, Andy Stewart and the Clyde.


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Ye go up by Crianlarich, it's the gateway to the north,
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and the scenery will please your eyes, I'm sure.
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Ye take oot your picnic basket 'cause the car has blown a gasket
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in the middle o' a place called Rannoch Moor.

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So you telephone the garage listed in the tourist guide,
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that was published for you by the R.A.C.,
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but by design, or by intention, or, they just forget to mention
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that the garage closes doon for half past three.


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So you're towed behind this tractor tae a corrugated shed
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that's surrounded by farm implements and carts,
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and you scratch your head and wonder why you ever bought a Honda,
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'cause they'll have to send to Tokyo for the parts.

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So you board the train for Oban and you get the boat to Mull
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feeling like you've had a night upon the tiles,
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ye pay twenty pence for coffee with a tang o' diesel oil,
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your experience in the swindle o' the isles.


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But your pulse begins to quicken at the thought of berry-pickin',
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so you take a trip to 'Gowrie for a spell,
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wi' some wellies o' your mothers that she bought in Ali Brothers,
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and a Gideon bible pinched frae yer hotel.

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So you're standing picking rasps being stung to death by wasps,
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the midges and the cleggs are making free,
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and the bairns have ate the berries and contracted dysentery,
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'cause last week they sprayed the crop with DDT.


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So you're headin' back to Birmingham more waterlogged than tanned,
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but no signs of habitation can you see,
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when you thought you were in Berwick you were actually in Lerwick,
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'Cause some vandal changed the signpost in Dundee