1967 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 A poem about Easthouses in the twenties The gates,the lodge,Auld Jonnie noon,The pigeon raw,an bottom o,the toonLeezie Wallace,puir me,and auld Sandie broom,The skull gates Miss Mackenzie,I,all write it a doon Frae the water works the Beveridges close,A,the hooses were filled with guid honest folksThe Campbell's, crossers, Strathearns and Shaws,The Meeks,The Duncan's, then up Pigeon Raw, Tae Davy Scott the East houses PoetMathy Ha, Auld Pakie along with, his goatEck Hynd,McCathie, and the young Jock Hugh's,Doon tae the close puir me wi, his booze, The Wilson's,the Walkers, and the Lessons too,Intae the close were the Lilly,s were few,Ye then crossed the street and intaeWhere dwelt the Burnetts,Borthwicks,A,few mair, The Knights underneath and a lot up the stair,The Allan's, Bess Kerr wi, the twins tae ensnareSandy Brunton and his Girr will always be there, The backside where privates gave the place its queer nameMany lids they were banged to the lads blushingShame, Where many an innocent still knew who to blame,Sairie,Jerry,Dobbie, an others to name,An, some they were lassies,its all in the game.The bus run tae Dalkeith was cheap an, quite thrilling In Cockburn's Elastic blue bus,The drivers were always quite willing,The squeeze on some mair without fuss, Auld Dod and his eldest son Ally,Were some o, the yins that kept doos,The doomen were usually pally,Till Rennes was the race in the news,The doofolk were gethered at doocots,With, loud shaking tins in their hands,A prize was in mind an action an, thoughts,If only that pigeon aid land.Presiouse minutes were sweatenly passing,As roon and aroon,they did wheel,Keen to tae come in for a ration,O,peas doos milk and oetmeal. Gubbie and Nell were next in the line,Passed Jim Allan wi, lassies twa FineThen on to auld May wi, three sonsSae braw,Alas,it greives me tae tell ye,Big Will is the yinthats away, The strike it was over the men back to work They then dug a haulage through The auld lilly park, They closed roon the vexom an,Bryan's pit braw, They built oversman hooses and Can,ed roon pigeon raw, The last yin ti fa, was old Davie Scott, Well known in the region as the , East houses poet, Oor Labour Mp was Westwood can,esJoe In the hale o, the village he be,er Had for,He thought us ti sing a well wordedLay, And so we will recite in his fondMemory, Eight hoors work and eight hoors play, Eight hoors sleep and eight bob aDay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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