From Buckie, with Love

by Albert Semple, 4 July 2023

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From the collection "Scots Language"

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Ah hud mah stag in Lanarkshire -
A weekend oan the skite.
They're mental fur the bucky there.
We drank the stuff aw night.
It brought the toon o Buckie,
Up in Banffshire, tae ma thoughts.
A woner whit they drink up there:
They must be mad for Shotts.
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by Albert Semple
8 lines over 2 stanzas.