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
The version I have has "Lad I donna know where ya bin...."
From that story I wonder if any his songs are about the power of P.
Kevin T. - VRWC Insert joke about child of a goddess here
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