scottish music

The Krankies once released ( or did it escape?) a lovely lilting ballad called "I know a song that'll get on your nerves" - its perfect for a nice long boating trip and all the crew will be able to join in with the chorus.

Just to be helpful I have printed the lyrics below.

You can add your own harmonies and improvisations.

Verse One & Chorus

I know a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer nerves, get on yer nerves.
I know a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer, get on yer nerves.

CHORUS

Verse Two

I'll sing a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer nerves, get on yer nerves,
I'll sing a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer, get on yer nerves.

CHORUS

Verse Three

I'm singing a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer nerves, get on yer nerves,
I'm singing a song that'll get on yer nerves,
geton yer, get on yer nerves.

CHORUS

Verse Four

I sang a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer nerves, get on yer nerves.
I sang a song that'll get on yer nerves,
get on yer, get on yer nerves.

CHORUS (Repeat & fade)
 
Went to see John Martyn as part of Celtic Connections at end of January.

Hmm.......

Certainly legless.......

Donald
 
Young Sir Bob is from just over the watter, and has a song which might well be appropriate:

The great song of indifference

I don't mind if you go
I don't mind if you take it slow
I don't mind if you say yes or no
I don't mind at all

I don't care if you live or die
Couldn't care less if you laugh or cry
I don't mind if you crash or fly
I don't mind at all

I don't mind if you come or go
I don't mind if you say no
Couldn't care less baby let it flow
'Cause I don't care at all

Na na na, etc.

I don't care if you sink or swim
Lock me out or let me in
Where I'm going or where I've been
I don't mind at all

I don't mind if the government falls
Implements more futile laws
I don't care if the nation stalls
And I don't care at all

I don't care if they tear down trees
I don't feel the hotter breeze
Sink in dust in dying sees
And I don't care at all

Na na na etc.

I don't mind if culture crumbles
I don't mind if religion stumbles
I can't hear the speakers mumble
And I don't mind at all

I don't care if the Third World fries
It's hotter there I'm not surprised
Baby I can watch whole nations die
And I don't care at all

I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind
I don't mind I don't mind
I don't mind at all

Na na na etc.

I don't mind about people's fears
Authority no longer hears
Send a social engineer
And I don't mind at all
 
scottish music blast from the past

After seeing Bert Jansch in Easdale a few months back, we saw Davey Graham in Stirling a couple of weeks ago - no more bizarre than to be expected. I was in stitches for a lot of the time.
 
Presuming you will want to not include Deacon Blue's Dignity (although the rest of the album is brilliant, marred only by that song), you cannot go wrong with:
Capercaillie
Runrig (when Donnie Munro was lead singer, not since that Canadian took on the vocals)
Blue Nile
Eddie Reader singing Burns
Teenage Fanclub (cannot believe no one else has mentioned them)
Waterboys (Fisherman Blues and Room To Roam are the best and no they are not Irish!)

I have to admit the above is pretty much what we have on the stereo if listening to music whilst sailing round the Clyde
 
Sorry to disappoint but The Waterboys are at least as Irish as they are Scottish - in fact if you count all members of the band who have come and gone since the Raggle Taggle days they are more Irish - even allowing for Eddi Reader who was never actually a band member but a backing singer.

Er...blimey....I sound like a right old anorak!!

Whatever - I have to agree they are a very fine band
 
what about Karine Polwart who "has been nominated three times for Best Original Song at the UK-wide BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and, indeed, won the award for the second time at the 2007 event with her deceptively simple ode to lost innocence "Daisy". Since her treble Folk Award winning breakthrough success in 2005 with debut album "Faultines", her follow up "Scribbled in Chalk" (Shoeshine Records, April 2006) has reinforced her reputation for refreshingly honest and unaffected vocals and a humane and literate song-writing sensibility. But the inclusion of "Daisy" on BBC Radio 2's core play list suggests the Scottish Borders based singer's musical appeal extends well beyond the folk scene alone."

And she is very friendly to.
 
Beg to differ - I mentioned Runrig right at the start. Maybe my misdemeanor in mentioning Bay City Rollers has indeed banished me to 'ignore' /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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What about Andy Stewart and Jimmy Shand.


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Well? What about them?

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They're both deid!
 
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Maybe my misdemeanor in mentioning Bay City Rollers has indeed banished me to 'ignore' /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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No of course not. Who could ever think of putting you on ignore. You did actually redeem yourself by (politely) saying that they weren't your cup of tea. And I'm sure you don't wear tartan trews and braces. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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