Saturday, October 22, 2005

Why Not Another One?

This is a short one, played to the tune of "The Gallant Forty Twa", of which the Clancy Brothers do a great rendition (If you care to, YOU can look it up. C'mon, do I have to do EVERYTHING?) ;-)
Again, unfamiliar terms can be found here, except for "gutty boys" which is from the gutter, or thugs.

Black Watch

You've heard about the B-men, the cruel RUC,
You've heard about the Black and Tans, a plague on history,
But there’s another regiment the devil calls his own,
They’re known as the Black Watch, commisioned by the throne.

Chorus:
Strolling down the Falls Road with riot guns and gas.
Terrorising women as they're coming out of Mass.
A bunch of Scottish critters we never will forget.
Thank God we know the IRA sure aren't beaten yet.

These soldiers come from Scotland, a place you all know well,
From the hardest part of Glasgow, the gutty boys do dwell.
They're given a British uniform, they're given a British gun,
They joined a British regiment to have themselves some fun

Chorus:

When I grow up and marry and have a little son,
I’ll tell him of the regiment, the terrible things they've done.
And when that he grows older, becomes a man like me,
He'll become a volunteer and set old Ireland free!

Chorus 2x.

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