Tour Scotland Video Jeely Piece Song Blair Davie The Tavern Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Blair Davie singing Jeely Piece song in a pub on history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A Scots folk song written in the 1960s, by Adam McNaugton.

I'm a sky scraper wean, I live on the ninteenth floor
But I'm no goin' oot tae play any more.
'Cause since we moved to oor new house I'm wastin' away
For I'm getting one meal less every day.

Chorus:
Oh ye canna fling pieces oot a twenty story flat
Seven hundred hungry weans will testify to that
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the bread is plain or pan
The odds against it reaching us is ninety-nine to one

On the first day my Maw flung oot a daud o' hovis broon
It came skitin' oot the windae and went up instead o' doon
Noo ev'ry twenty seven hours it comes back into sight
Cause my piece went intae orbit and became a satellite

On the next day my Maw flung me oot a piece again
It went up and hit a pilot in a fast, low flying plane
He scrapped it off his goggles, shouting through the intercom
The Clydeside Reds have got me wi' a breid 'n jelly bomb

On the third day my Maw tho't she would try another throw
The Salvation Army band was standin' doon below
'Onward Christian Soldiers' was the tune they should've played
But the Oompah man was playing piece 'n marmalade

We've wrote awa' to Oxfam to try an' get some aid
We all joined together and have formed the Piece Brigade
We're gonna march to London tae demand our civil rights
Like nae more hooses over piece flinging height

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Old Photograph Railway Station Largs Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally opened on 1 June 1885 by the Glasgow and South Western Railway, as the terminus of the extension of the former Ardrossan Railway to Largs. On 11 July 1995 an early morning Class 318 train from Glasgow Central failed to stop. It crashed through the buffers and the back of the ticket office, severely damaging parts of the station building, and demolished two shops before coming to a stop next to the taxi rank on Main Street. An eye-witness described the noise with the station shaking as the train " was ploughing through it like a set of dominoes ", then " the whole corner of the building disintegrating ". Although the driver, the guard and three others suffered injuries, there was considerable relief that no one was killed.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Helmsdale Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Helmsdale on the east coast of Sutherland, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Video Seaplane Landing On Loch Lomond

Tour Scotland video of a seaplane landing on Loch Lomond, Scotland. The Loch Lomond Golf Club is situated on the south western shore. It has hosted many international events including the Scottish Open. Another golf club, The Carrick has opened on the banks of the Loch adjacent to the Loch Lomond Club. The West Highland Way runs along the eastern bank of the loch. The West Loch Lomond Cycle Path runs from Arrochar and Tarbet railway station, at the upper end of the loch, to Balloch railway station, at the south end. The 17 mile long cycle path runs along the west bank.

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Old Photograph Passenger Bus To Macindoe Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old photograph of a Passenger Bus to Macindoe Crescent in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.



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