Name: The Twa Corbies
Duration: 2 min 42 s
Channel: Trad arr. Pullar
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. An ancient scottish song. Two crows discuss their next meal, a dead knight lying beyond a wall.

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An ancient scottish song. Two crows discuss their next meal, a dead knight lying beyond a wall.

pop folk scottish rockabilly political perthshire

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39 Dangerous Street

Whats this pish about peace, love & understanding... when they're eating YOUR pan loaf, shiting on your living room carpet & wanking over yer granny's photo.

Scottish Acid Avant Rockabilly Folk Pop with an unforgiving political edge. 39 Dangerous Street formed in 1987, and signed to Splairgin' Glit the following year. William Pullar...Acoustic,electric guitar, vocals Kelvin Gilbert... electric guitar, backing vocals Samantha Baxter...Bass Marilyn MacFarlane...Drums, percussion Associate members Captain W... electric guitar, Fiona Kennedy... Piano, keyboards Marilyn completed an SVQ level 3 in Poultry Husbandry in 1998. She works with poultry in Errol. Samantha Baxter works at an animal science lab in nearby Bridge of Earn. William Pullar runs a small dry cleaning firm in Perth. Kelvin Gilbert's CV shows lengthy stays in Lennox Castle, Gogarburn, The Royal Edinburgh and Spinbinnie Hospitals between his musical forays... Captain W commutes between his home in the dark heart of Southern Scotland and the splendour of St John's Toun. Fiona Kennedy pops over from Comrie regularly. A small but committed bunch of fans keep us in beer and whisky at occasional Friday night gigs in Scone.

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional European

Charts

#271 in subgenre Peak #8

Charts

Peak #100

Author

Trad arr. Pullar

Rights

Splairging Glit

Uploaded

August 11, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:42

Story behind the song

This is the greatest song about war ever. The fickle attention span of the living...his wife's happily getting pumped by someone else, his hawk is off after the birds and his faithful dog has deserted him to go and chase ducks. The crows select eyeballs for tasty treats and his lovely hair to thatch their nest.

Lyrics

As I was walkin' all alane
I spied twa corbies makin' a mane
An ane untae the tither did say
Whaur shall we gang an' dine the day

In behint yon auld fail dike
I wit there lies a new slain knight
An' naebody kens that he lies there
But his hawk and his hound an' his lady fair

His hound is tae the huntin' gane
His hawk tae bring the wild fowl hame
His lady's ta'en anither mate
So we may mak' oor dinner sweet

You'll sit oan his white hause-bane
An' I'll pike oot his bonny blue een
And wae a lock o' his gowden hair
We'll theek oor nest when it grows bare

Many a wan for him maks mane
But nane shall ken whaur he is gane
And oer his banes when they are bare
The wind shall blaw for evermair