scs Fairy Tales

By Authors Unknown

Fairytale of Glencoe

O soft is the snow that sweeps Glencoe
And makes it ideal for skiing.
Get piste après-ski with hot toddies for free
And naebody talks about deeing.

You can trace all this fun
To six-teen ninety-one,
When King Bill sat in council, inclined to play jokes.
It was April the first
So he said, 'Do your worst'
Never thinking the Britclones would fall for the hoax.

But nothing was simple
For Lord John Dalrymple.
He signed a command that said, 'Kill all the men'
"Kill all of their wives,
"And then take the bairns' lives."
So they marched in mid-winter to our snowy glen.

They came in a blizzard,
We offered them gizzard,
They pulled out their broadswords - but up rode a man:
"The order's rescinded,
"King William has binned it.
"Happy Christmas, Maclain, and to all of your clan."

And the boys in the Earl of Argyll's choir were singing "Auld Lang Syne."
And the bells were ringing out at Christmas time.

 

Music . . .
Starts to the tune of 'The Massacre of Glencoe',
then segues into 'Fairytale of New York'