My first CD, this comprises a variety of songs I perform at renaissance fairs, highland games, pirate festivals, and so on. Ranging from the serious, to the romantic to the downright silly, I hope you enjoy this album.
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A song about a badass cat from Glasgow, Scotland. This song was very popular in the late 1960s in Scotland, has been covered a couple of times, and is being used here with permission.
lyrics
Chorus
I'm a cat, I'm a cat, I'm a Glasgow cat
And my name is Sam the Skull
I've got claws in my paws like a crocodile's jaws
And a heid like a fermer's bull
I'm no the kind of cat that sat on the mat
Nor the kind that you gie a hug
I'm the kind of cat that strangles all the rats
Aye and even the occasional dug.
Well roon aboot doon Shettleston way
They all know me by sight
'Here's the Skull, here's the Skull' you can hear them call
As I vanish intae the night
The police stations roon oor way
Have bars on the windae sill
It's no tae keep the prisoners in
It's tae keep oot Sam the Skull
Chorus:
Well one fine day no’ so long ago
They all had had their fill
So they sent for the RSPCA
To capture Sam the Skull
‘Cause naebody can get oot when he's roamin aboot
Chasin the weans up the close
Sitting on the stairs, scratchin' his elbow
An' sittin' there pickin' his nose
Chorus:
Well oot came the men aboot half past two
In their wee blue Escort van
There was one was in the back, sittin’ wi’ a sack
The other had a mallet in his han'
As they run roon the back o' the hoose
I casually strolled tae the van
I jumped in the front an' I was aff
Everything was goin’ tae plan.
Chorus:
You can hear them say doon Shettleston way
Whatever happened to Sam the Skull
He had claws in his paws like a crocodile's jaws
An' a heid like a fermer's bull
You can tell them from me
I'm still roamin' free
Never a day is dull
It might sound absurd,
but I'm livin' wi' a burd
In a single end in Maryhill.
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