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- From: Joe.Bethancourt@f72.n114.z1.fidonet.org
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- Subject: Re: scotland's depraved
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 08:01:00
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- -=> Kay Shapero said to Joe Bethancourt on 12-23-92 11:00 <=-
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- JB>In re: the little story about the Englishman who won all the
- JB>contests....
- JB>It's a song by Bertrand of Bearington in the SCA. I have it on
- JB>disc, &
- JB>will be glad to post it if you want the words.
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- KS> Please do (unless it's sufficiently bawdy as to get us all into
- KS> trouble in which case do file attach me a copy, will you?)
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- SCOTLAND'S DEPRAVED
- -Bertram of Bearington
- (Tune: "There Were Three Bonnie Lassies, Came from the Isle of Wight")
- (nb: "Wearin' O' the Green" works, too)
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- There was a bonnie lassie, and she had brothers three;
- She did love a foreign lord, who came from Coventry.
- Her brothers did not like this and they told her to her face,
- "We're fearful, bonnie sister, the family you'll disgrace.
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- For you're a highborn Scottish lass, of noble highland birth,
- And we don't think no foreign laird can give you what you're worth!"
- She said, "He is a valiant lord - he'll show you what he's got,
- You'll see the stuff he's made of - he'll out-Scottish any Scot!"
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- "We'll set him tests of honor," the brothers they declared,
- "And if he canna do them, we'll surely know he's scared,
- In fact we clearly doubt that he'll escape from them alive,
- And so we'll set the contest - the trials will be five."
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- The first contest was golfing, in which the lord did fine.
- He killed a dozen hedgehogs while shooting the back nine.
- He double-bogied every hole, his ball went wide and far,
- But when they counted hedgehogs, they found he'd broken par!
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- The second one was piping, in which he held his own,
- He outdid all the brothers, for on and on he'd drone.
- He kept his pipes a'skirlin' 'til they all were out of breath,
- The reason - not his diaphragm - it's just that he's tone deaf!
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- ... Strange Songs, Strange Instruments, Strange Women ... Huzzah!
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- --- WM v2.04/92-0475
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