IT WAS ON JULY THE SEVENTEENTH, FROM GOUROCK WE SET SAIL
KIND FORTUNE DID FAVOUR US, WI A CRATE O GOOD STRONG ALE
WE HAD SOME WHISKY AND HOME BREW TOO, AND CHIPS THAT FAIRLY DID SMELL
AND SO DRUNK AND BRAVE, WE SAILED THE WAVES, BOUND OER TAE ROTHESAY BAY
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MY BIG MATES NAME WAS NELSON, JUST FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE
AS TRUE AND BRAVE A DRINKING LAD, SAILING ON THE WAVES
HE STOOD UP FRONT OF THE BOW MY LADS, HIS TROUSERS FELL FAE HIS WAIST
INTO THE WIND, HE TRIED TO PEE, ALL THE WAY TO ROTHESAY BAY
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NOW A WEE BIT OUT, TO NO SURPRISE, THE TEACHERS THEY FELL SICK
THEY SHORTLY WERE NOT ABLE, TO STAY THERE ON THE DECK
FOR LAXITIVES IN THEIR GUINNESS, HAD MADE THEM RUN LIKE HECK
THEY WERE ON THE TOILETS IN DISMAY, AS WE SAILED FOR ROTHESAY BAY
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AT THREE O CLOCK WE WERE IN A CLOUD, THAT WOULD NOT DISSAPPEAR
THE DIAHREOA WAS RAGING, THE SEAGULLS WERE ACTINGQUEER
BY FOUR O CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, THE SMELL WAS OUT OF HAND
THE QUARINTINE FLAG WAS FLYING HIGH, INTAE ROTHESAY WE COULDNAE LAND
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WE WERE SINGING SONGS AND HOLDING ON, TO THE CRASHING OF THE WAVES
WE HAD OUR RAINCOATS AND WELLIES ON, FOR THE RAIN WOULDNAE GO AWAY
A HURRICANE WAS BLOWING SO STRONG, TO START OUR HOLIDAYS
ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE GLASGOW FAIR
, HEADING FOR ROTHESAY BAY
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FOR SEVEN DAYS WE WERE BLOWN AROUND, THE FOOD IT WAS ALL GONE
THERE WAS NOTHING BUT WHISKY AND GUINESS, FOR US TO FEED UPON
THE CAPTAIN AND THE CREW ALL DRUNK AS WE CRASHED ONTO THE LAND
AND A FRIENDLY VOICE IT GREETED US, WELCOME TAE JAPAN
