Thanks for the participation in the WMAL Tour

[Philip Miller Tate]

Hi Joe


Well, that got Caroline's and my weekend off to good start! It took  
us both a while to stop laughing. Never heard that one before. Thanks  
for that!

Phil M1GWZ





On 19 Mar 2011, at 02:09, Joseph Bento wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Philip Miller Tate wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeah, but everyone knows that copper wire was invented 350 years  
>> ago by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.
>>
>
>
> Is there anyone that hasn't heard the song, The Sleeping Scotsman?
>
> 1.  A Scotsman clad in kilt
> Left a bar one evening fair
> And one could tell by how he walked
> He'd drunk more than his share
> He stumbled on until
> He could no longer keep his feet
> Then staggered off into the grass
> To sleep beside the street.
>
> Refrain:
>
> A ring-di-diddle-e-di do,
> A-ring-di-diddle-i-day
> He staggered off into the grass
> To sleep beside the street.
>
> 2. A pair of young and lovely girls
> Just happened to come by
> And one said to the other,
> With a twinkle in her eye:
> "See yon sleeping Scotsman,
> So strong and handsome built..
> I wonder if it's true
> What they don't wear beneath the kilt?"
>
> 3. They crept upon the sleeping Scotsman,
> Quiet as could be,
> And lifted up his kilt about an inch
> So they could see...
> And there, behold, for them to view,
> Beneath his Scottish skirt
> T'was nothing but
> What God has graced him with upon his birth!
>
>  4. They marveled for a moment,
> Then one said: "We'd best be gone.
> But let's leave a present for our friend
> Before we move along!"
> So as a gift, they left a blue silk ribbon,
> Tied into a bow,
> Around the Bonnie Star
> The Scottish kilt did lift and show!
>
> 5. The Scotsman woke to Nature's Call,
> And stumbled towards a tree
> Behind the bush, he lifts his kilt,
> And gawks at what he sees!
> Then, in a startled voice he says
> To what's before his eyes:
> "O Lad  I don't know where you've been
> But I see y'won First Prize!"
>
> Joe, N6DGY