TSoor Watter

I'm not exactly sure where this came from - but it's credited as "published totally unofficially by the Trossachs Inn 'Poetry And Real Ale Society' (PARAS)" LOL !!!! The poem is a tongue in cheek reply to a plan at the time, to pipe Scottish water down South

They English are a thieving lot
They always want what Scotland's got
Not satisfied our oil to steal
They want our water now as well
But we should tell them loud and clear
And shout it out for all to hear
IT'S OUR WATER

They say their crops are going to die
Because their burns are running dry
And say a pipe they want to lay
To suck our water down their way
But we are going to pass a law
To stop their game, for after all
IT'S OUR WATER !

Now, some might say we're awful mean
That we'll not help our English friends
But try to see our way of it
If boot was on the other foot
Do you think they'd let us have a drop
Very soon they'd say "we're sorry chaps"
IT'S OUR WATER !

Sunshine they get for weeks on end
While we walk round like wet hens
And then they boast and think it's fun
To boast and say "OUR English sun
That shines from out OUR English sky"
So we're entitled to reply
IT'S OUR WATER !

Yes, let them boast about their sun
But now their water's nearly done
If we should let them have their way
And pipes to English houses lay
If they could sook as weel's they blaw
We'd have no water left at all
An IT'S OUR WATER !

Now, we've a plan we're putting forward
To put big mirrors into orbit
That'll catch the English sun's reflection
An' beam it's rays in our direction
Then we can say without fear
ITS OUR SUN, ITS OUR OIL And what is more
IT'S OUR WATER !!

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