Vilyehm Teighlore wrote:
> > Or in Scotland you wake up with a blue ribbon tied
Debbi replied:
> I Dunno Wher Ya Bin, Milad, But I See Ya Won Firs'
> Prize! Maru ;}
Funny this song should come up now...
There are a lot of different versions of that last line. "I don't know
where ya bin my boy," "my friend," even changing the word order to "Lad (or
boy or friend) I don't know where ya bin...."
And oddly enough, the song was not written by a Scot, but by an American
folk singer named Mike Cross, born in Tennessee and raised in the
Appalachian mountains who took up guitar playing after giving up a college
golf scholarship to follow his girlfriend to the college of *her* choice.
He picks up the story there:
We broke up when I was a freshman. I'd given up my golf
scholarship and even sold my clubs, so I had to find something
to replace them. I think that's why I took up the guitar. I needed
a new passion in life.
http://www.mikecross.com/
By strange coincidence (yet another example of list synchronicity), I just
recently purchased a used copy of "Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection:
The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time." The Bryan Bowers recording of
"The Scotsman" is the second song on the first CD of the two-CD set.
Reggie Bautista
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