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Funky Peatstack
I’m going down to see my funky peatstack
I’m going down to see my funky peatstack
I’m going down to see my funky peatstack
I’m going down to see my funky peatstack
Where are you going to?

That’s it there just by the winding peattrack
That’s it there just by the winding peattrack
That’s it there just by the winding peattrack
That’s it there just by the winding peattrack
Where’s your peatstack gone?

I’m going down to put the fallen peat’s back
I’m going down to put the fallen peat’s back
I’m going down to put the fallen peat’s back
I’m going down to put the fallen peat’s back
Where are you going to?

Gunhilted
Keep your mind on what their saying
Keep an ear on what their doing
If your down and feeling wilted
Don’t forget to be Gunhilted

Chorus.
Yea yea yea, Gunhilted
Yea yea yea , All the time
Yea yea yea, Gunhilted
Blow your mind

Set your sights and keep that heading
Hold your course and don’t be spreading
If your waters feeling silted
Don’t forget to be Gunhilted

Chorus

With some shades on you’d be cool
With a string vest you’d look a fool
With some tartan you’d be kilted
But don’t forget to be Gunhilted

Chorus

Keep an eye on where your headed
If you ever going to get wedded
If at the alter you get jilted
Don’t forget to be Gunhilted
I Don't Like Sheep
Small animal
Wooly animal
Animal with very little brain
Small animal
Wooly animal
Sleeps out in the rain

Chorus
I don’t like sheep
They make me want to weep
I don’t like sheep
They’re not the apple of my eye
Unless
Unless they’re in a pie

Get behind the wheel
Of my automobile
And go out for a drive
Why does that sheep
By the side of the road
Have to get to the other side

Drinking Thinking
It’s Friday night
Cathy Dhalls is in your sights
Cider’s gonna make you tight
Cos your underage
There is no doubt
All you need’s a carry-out
Even if its Sweetheart Stout
Cos your underage
Drink from a canFeel like a man
Cos your underage
The Castle Grounds
Is good for hiding ring-pull sounds
Even though its out of bounds
Cos your underage
Carry outs!I want to get my
Carry outs!
The Hunt For The Humpbacked Lobster
I stand in the prow of my fine craft
Scanning the sea both front and aft
For a tell tale sign that my prey is near
So the Humped-backed lobster I can spear
We sailed from Harris at early dawn
Hurrying in case our prey was gone
Harpoon is loaded and points to sea
And Humped-backed lobster we’ll have for tea
Chorus
Harpoon, Harpoon, Descend real soon
With a mighty crack on the Lobsters back
Harpoon, harpoon, descend real soon
With a mighty crack on the lobsters back

It’s a savage life being a lobsterman
To catch crustaceans for the pan
Sailing through both wind and snow
And waiting for the cry of there she blows
It’s a thankless job that needs be done
Hunting lobsters on the run
My hunt for lobsters will never cease
Despite persecution from Greenpeace

Chorus
Bjorns Horns
Now listen here to what I say
I come to steal your land away
My Viking ships are in your bay
I come for the keys of Stornoway

Chorus
I want, I want
This land it will be mine
I need, I need
Oh Thor give me a sign

Now listen here, I want your moor
Gonna take your peat and all the smuir
Your energy’s gonna keep me hot
Gonna take your power gonna take the lot

Chorus

Heroes
Take a young man give him a gun
Six weeks training so much to learn
Send him marching on foreign soil
Here him screaming at the field guns recoil
It was a long time ago
But I still wake screaming
It was a long time ago
But I’m still bleeding

Chorus
Heroes, was what they said
Sent us fighting till the fields turned red
Heroes and we didn’t know
Still wounded but the scars don’t show

Take a soldier to the front
Won’t be 18 until next month
Send him charging under fire
Hear him screaming as he’s trapped by the wire
It was a long time ago
But I still wake screaming
It was a long time ago
But I’m still bleeding

Chorus

Oh Flick
This cunning plan of noble birth
To shift a chunk of gods own earth
Began at dawn this fateful day
As I watched the longships in the spray
In the spray
The Vikings say its their intent
To move rocks stronger than cement
With chains as an umbilical cord
They’ll tow us over to their fiord
To their fiord
The towing starts and rocks do break
Leaving Barra in their wake
Never fear old Bjorn does yell
There’s still the rest on which to dwell
On which to dwell
A cry goes up from Viking mouth
As Uist breaks off in the south
And swears do fly, in ancient Norse
Which sounds to me so very coarse
So very coarse
More breaking sounds and Bjorn goes ‘bah’
And welcome too Benbecula
Harder still they row their craft
With new made isles left in their aft
Left in their aftAnd last the Uist of the north
Broke apart for all its worth
A floating peat in Atlantic swell
A place for Uisteochs to dwell
A place to dwell
Harris stays with the isle of Heather
With Tarbert holding both together
The Vikings could not the effort make
And anyway the chain did break
Chain did break
Ponderous
Its time to leave and lock the door
I make my way down to the shore
To emigrate and take my leave
My blackhouse home I will not grieve

Chorus
As we sail past the croft
Burn the thatch, send smoke aloft
A sign to see from far away
An end to night a brand new day

Well times were hard and life was tough
And I have had just about enough
To sail away on the rising tide
I’m crossing over the great divide

Chorus

Of smoke filled rooms
And the taste of soot
And cow droppings of at least a foot
This pile of stones that I call my home
Has been the cause of my need to roam

Chorus

Bee Without A Bumble
This is my job
It gets me down
I sit here all the day
Watching as the world goes by
While getting monthly pay

Chorus
So far to go I can’t see the end
But driven on I stumble
I lost my way a long time ago
I’m a bee without a bumble

This is my car
I drive it home
And sit in traffic jams
Watching other cars go by
And ladies pushing prams

Chorus

This is my house I pay the rent
And all them monthly bills
Trying to keep my family warm
While keeping out the chills

Chorus

Cromwell Street Congregation
It’s Friday night and the time is right
To hoist a glass of ale
Wallet thinning but your still grinning
Though you’re looking pale
The bar is closing but the night is young
Where can you go to have some fun
There’s a place in town where the streets turn right
That’s the place for a Friday night

Chorus
Join the Cromwell St congregation
That’s where its at
Pavement pizza competition
Before you fall down flat
There’s pretty girls and motorcycle freaks
Country girls with hair the colour of peat
So Mr policeman just walk on by
Pretend you’ve got something in your eye
Cos the Cromwell St Congregation got nowhere to hide

It’s Saturday night and the moneys tight
You’ve had a drink or two
The Sheep behind the discothèque
He played a record for you (can you play Freebird)
The bar is closing but you want some action
Wait a minute cunning plans hatching
There’s a place in town where the streets turn right
That’s the place for a Saturday night

Chorus

Peter Dan The Rubber Man
Safety in numbers
Said the girl to her young man
I’ll bring along a friend of mine
If you’ll bring Peter Dan
We’ll buy a bottleTake a stroll
Together hand in hand
We’ll watch and see
If Mary falls in love with Peter Dan

They came upon a cross-roads
When they had walked a mile
I do believe we’ll take our leave
Said the young girl with a smile
We’ll sit right here and talk awhile
Said Peter in reply
Mary blushed and failed to see
The twinkle in his eye

Chorus
And oh oh the sun went down
And the moon rose like silver
In the sky above the town
Look Away, Look Away
Said Peter to his lover
And he introduced his best friend
And dressed him all in rubber
Peter DanThe Rubber Man

The lady turned around
Saw Peter on the ground
A wicked smile upon his face
And his fun gun in his hand
The lady screamed and said to him
You are a wicked man
Alas I can no longer stay
And away she briskly ran
Mary’s anguished cry
Broke the silence of the night
Her friends returned in haste to see
If Mary was all right
All they saw was Peter Dan
Sitting there alone
When questioned Peter Dan repliedI think she has gone home

Chorus

A Tale Of Two Tractors
Well this old farm is all I got
It’s the best for miles around
One hundred head of cattle
And corn growing in the ground

Well my farm is more fertile
Its grass is lush and green
And most folk think my turnips are
The best they’ve ever seen

Chorus
Plink plonk goes the rain
On my old tin shed
I hope the Lord forgives me
Cos I want my neighbour dead

The people here are friendly
Except for him next door
He don’t feed his animals
They’re always after more

Well his fields of corn are dying off
They must have got the blight
He just don’t have that farming knack
He just don’t do it right

Chorus

Well listen here old neighbour
This is what I said
I’m going to come a-calling
And set fire to your shed

That don’t worry me none
I’ll burst your tractor tyre
And then I’ll get some matches
And set fire to your byre

Chorus

Uig Draftsmen
Can you feel the wind
As it blows tonight
Do you think it’ll blow forever
Can you feel the wind
In the fading light
We’re in for stormy weather

Have you ever sat and wondered
On a cold winters night
Where the wind comes from
As it blows out of sight
Does it come from the mountains?
Does it come from the sea?
Does it come from the forest?
Blowing all around the trees

Have you ever sat and wondered
As your watching the breeze
Carrying bits of paper
Round the compass degrees
Does it come from the mountains?
Does it come from the sea?
Does it come from the forest?
Blowing all around the trees

Have you ever sat and wondered
As you walk on the beach
Why the winds are blowing
To wherever they can reach
Do they do it for the pleasure
IS it all some master plan
If you want to know the reason
Ask an Uig Draftsman

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