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Sottish placenames in songs
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:55 am
by jim.r
Cumnock and see me Ballochmyle by Cockney Rebel is a personal favourite!
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:25 am
by ljs
I just can't stop loving Poolewe by Michael Jackson
Or perhaps anything by the Fun Lovin' Crinancanals:
'Running around robbing banks
All wacked off of Sgurr Ban snacks..'
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:48 am
by ljs
Tee hee
Let's go Alloway - Insane Clown Posse
Ayr on a G string - JSB
I wanna Tinker's Hole your hand - Beatles.....
Place names in song
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:54 am
by Bejasus
I know it's kind of off topic a little but this sparng into my head and started me giggling.
Fanny's Bay..............by..................Martha and the Muffins.
I'll get me coat..............
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:10 pm
by oldgaffer1
'Oh, say Kingussie by the dawn's early light....' - Star Spangled Banner
24 hours from Tolsta. - Gene Pitney
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:47 pm
by claymore
Aviemore, Aviemore - prettiest town I ever saw
Women there don't treat you raw
In Aviemore...My Aviemore
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:37 pm
by Telo
Milngavie - Mary Wells (produced by Smokey Robinson)
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:40 pm
by ljs
Dundee Ron Ron Ron - the Crystals
Uist nothing but a hound dog - Elvis
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:48 pm
by Silkie
Mull of Kiintyre by.. No, wait a minute, that's neither entertaining nor funny.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:22 pm
by Rowana
Silkie wrote:Mull of Kiintyre by.. No, wait a minute, that's neither entertaining nor funny.
But "Muckin' the byre" to the same tune was, if my memory serves me right.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:45 pm
by ljs
Sung by returning Mull of Kintyre crab-fishing boat crew:
'Sanda claws are coming to town...'
OK I'm going to shut up now.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:12 pm
by DaveS
claymore wrote:Aviemore, Aviemore - prettiest town I ever saw
Women there don't treat you raw
In Aviemore...My Aviemore
Haven't heard that in years!
I seem to recall a twosome called the Trampies who played most of the Aviemore pubs on different nights doing this as their party piece. AIRI the last word of the second line was "sore" which gives more rhymes...
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:21 pm
by Rowana
The Trampies!
Now there's a name from the past.
I think I've still got a casette of them somewhere in the hoose
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:07 am
by claymore
DonnieMcDonald and Arthur Mclean
I took drink with Donnie in Kingussie about 5 years ago
Arthur is still teaching skiing in Courchevel along with Evelyn his wife, who
works for Kenny Dickson
Whit aboot
Seiled with a Kiss - was that Brian Highland who sang it?
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:07 pm
by Olivepage
Or possibly
Hey Bute - Beatles
Is this the way to Ardnamurchan - almost everyone
Love love me Rhu - beatles
For Coll we know - Shirley Bassey
I walk Lochaline - Johnny Cash
The vicar of Doonray - Trad