Like Wini, ah went to School in Dennistoun and we dogged it.Where I lived in Glasgow we used to call it dogging school
Not me personaly mind.
Jist in case ye don't know it Wini
I was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow EE-WAN, [E1]
I made butter in a boattle, jumped the dykes an’ kicked the can;
At dodgie-ball I ducked, at Whitevale Baths I dived;
There was naeb’dy then to tell ye that your childhood was deprived.
CHORUS: Oh the Glasgow I belong to is the Dear Green Place
It’s the capital o’ Culture, it’s a dampt disgrace;
It’s Kelvinside an’ Calton, pan-loaf, plain breid;
It’s the Tron an’ the Tramway an’ the Sarrie Heid!
For ma yooni education, I went over to the West.
Walkin’ hame frae Union dances is the bit that I mind best;
Two o’cloack in the mornin’ has a magic all its own,
Even in North Woodside Road an’ Dobbie’s Loan
I began ma teachin’ in a northern housing scheme--
The “neighbourhood unit” of the Corporation’s dream.
Their plans were well-intentiont but, to say the least, bizarre:
Forty thoosan’ drinkers an’ no a single bar!
Eh’ve lived on the South Side noo two decades and a hauf;
You can tell the way Eh’m talking that Eh’ve became a toff.
It jist only goes to show you how one lives and learns:
You’d swear Eh’d been born in Clarksting or in Newting Mearns.
Workers’ City, Merchant City, Glasgow on the Clyde!
It’s the Workshop of the Empire, East End, Sooth Side!
Frae Castlemilk tae Possil, frae the Drum tae Provanmill,
I belong to Glasgow and I always will!