by The Real McKenzies on album Loch'd & Loaded
Do I remember not so many years ago Me & the young McKenzies skulkin' at the whisky store Just wee nippers (sippers) much too young to buy a dram We came up with a daring plan & pulled a whisky scam
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
Chip worked as a boatwright As his father and his gran Working in a boatyard Building on the River Thames One day Chip was hard at work The Devil appeared from hell He held a roll of copper And a buck
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
Like a squid, up at dawn An' I drag me butt tae me job. Not a break, front to back Kicking balls to the wall Down a mile a hole Moving mountains of coal While here's to hell It's ringin
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
We are all born free but forever live in chains and we battle to exist and soldier on We'll take whatever comes to be while keeping hopeful melody and we'll cruise through the darkness until the war
by The Real McKenzies on album Shine Not Burn
I'm living up in Canada, and I'm Canadian Scottish Canadian with opportunity I could have been a manager of a brewery Making beer for everyone but most of all for me My father was a soda je
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
I'm a major minority, I can tell the government lies Long as they don’t compromise my infernal disguise Cold water is all around, is this what it feels like to drown Ain't no body to pull me out,
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
Woke up today and caught in last night's smoke, I hung my wet and stinky kilt to dry. There's not alot of room in here my eviction's in the works I fear but still I hold my finger in the pie. And
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
In days of yore from foreign shores The royal minions came And planted firm their feckless flags On such a fair domain It marked the beginnings of the end Of those who first were there The cultures a
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
John Gray was a gardener Who, with his wife and bairn Arrived in Edinburgh The century was nearly turned The year was 1800 That year was harsh and cold He could nae find nae work Their future so unsur
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
Designed by William Roué and built by Smith and Rhuland Co. Launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1921 Christened by lady by Audrey She slipped into the bay Oh captain Angus Walters, A skipper o
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
We are all born free but forever live in chains and we battle to exist and soldier on We'll take whatever comes to be while keeping hopeful melody and we'll cruise through the darkness until the war
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
That Serbian man Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand With what would transpire Would change the world And set Europe afire On one side the Czar and the King And on the other stood The Kaiser and Ottoman
by The Real McKenzies on album Shine Not Burn
Whiskey Scotch Whiskey I need my scotch whiskey And I'll drink my scotch whiskey Until the day I die Whiskey Scotch Whiskey I know my scotch Whiskey And I'll drink my scotch whiskey Until t
by The Real McKenzies on album Shine Not Burn
well, bugger off, you bastards, bugger off well, bugger off, you bastards, bugger off you're like a herd of bloody swine that refuse to leave the trough you'll get no more this evening so yo
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
They came in the night When the men were asleep This band O' Argyles Through snow soft and deep Like murdering foxes Among helpless sheep They slaughtered the house of MacDonald O Cruel is t
by The Real McKenzies on album Westwinds
The voice will carrey 'cross the water. You can hear it if you try. Our message rides along the rising tide, Clear to the other side. The message echoes through the valleys. Reflecting off the
by The Real McKenzies on album Shine Not Burn
there once was a wee laddie-o who lived not so very long ago who had a brother with a heart of gold, they soon grew into men the younger one had never walked, because of this he never had the brighter
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
Remember in the 60's Just a wee toy lad Influence by rockers Most of them were mad Throwing TV's in the pool Livin' life so fast By the time I caught up All of it was in the past Then
by The Real McKenzies on album Off The Leash
Great pharaoh of today Junked up I'm on a day crusade Oh what a clever charade Great western garden states Break laws to keep the people down A self elected clown Take the children of the