Waggle o’ the kilt    (intro)

 

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1. I'll never forget the day I went and join'd the "Ninety third",

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    the chums I used to run with said they thought I look'd absurd.

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    As they saluted me, and gather'd round me in a ring,

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    and as I wagg'd my tartan kilt they a' began to sing.

 

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He's a braw braw Hielan' laddie, Private Jock McDade,

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there's not anither soger like him in the Scotch Brigade.

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Rear'd amang the heather, you can see he's Scottish built,

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by the wig, wig, wiggle, wiggle, waggle o' the kilt.

 

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2. I'll never forget the day we were order'd on review,

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    the King came down to see us, and the Queen was with him too.

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    As I march'd by the royal coach, the King just shook his head,

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    the Queen put on her royal spec's and look'd at me and said :

 

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3. I'll never forget the day we went away to camp,

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    the sun was hot, and I drank a lot, I was nearly dead with cramp.

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    I'm very nearly certain sure I would have died that day,

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    but the thing that saved my life was when the band began to play.

 

+ CHORUS     (+ Pratter...)       + CHORUS (2x)

 

    (Sir Harry Lauder)