| Lyrics: | JOCK STEWART
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Now, my name is Jock Stewart
I'm a canny
gaun man,
And a roving young fellow, I've been.
So be easy and free
When you're drinkin wi' me.
I'm a man you don't meet every day.
I have acres of
land;
I have men at command;
(And)
I have always a shilling to spare.
(And many
)
Now, I took out my gun,
With my dog I did shoot,
All down by the River
Kildare
(banks of the Try)
I'm a piper by trade
And a roving
young blade
And many a tune I do play
Let us catch well the hours
And the
minutes that fly
And we'll share them together this day
So, come fill up your
glasses
Of brandy and wine,
And whatever the cost, I will pay.
The
song is an Irish narrative ballad that has been shortened to
an Aberdeenshire drinking song.
It is essentially Jeannie
Robertson's version, slightly modified by Archie Fisher in
the
third verse so the dog doesn't get shot. It is alternatively
claimed by the Singing
Stewarts to have been written for Bell's
father.
Recorded by Archie Fisher on "The
Man With A Rhyme," Folk
Legacy, FSS-61, Copyright 1976.
The fourth and fifth verses
are from the singing of Ian McGregor
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