Funny Scotland the Brave...

[Mike1]

Graham, trust me, spending just two minutes with Ronnie Browne would change your mind about your visit to Scotland. He has a tremendous heart for Scotland and her people. Don't make the mistake of judging Ronnie by a single parody song, wait until you've seen the fire burning in his eyes as he plays a proper rendition of Scotland the Brave.

Yes, a date on that video would be interesting.

Here is a shot of Ronnie and a pal of mine, taken at the Wallace Homecoming in Lanark, September 2005.


As you can see. a bit of an 'aging process' has been taking place.

[Niblox]

...I don't think you could get away with references to Jews, Pakistanis, or any other ethnic groups like that any more. The Scottish Parliament is trying to attract more people to come to Scotland, because the population has been declining for a long time. Where are they going to get them if they confine themselves to white/caucasian celtic christians (preferably presbyterian?).

Borat did a hatchet job on the USA in his latest film and they didn't realise that the mickey was being taken out of them. This song is just embarrassing.

[raindog]

Hi Niblox,
well, it was a long time ago when the song was done. I think back to the way the world was and find the song amusing. If a modern day singer had sung it I wouldn't like it. A similar thing happened to a south african singer who had a big hit with a song about his childhood (this was in the seventies). He referred to a sweet candy which the kids used to call 'n*****balls'. Just after he had the hit the whole feeling about south africa changed and he had to stop doing the song....Probably a good thing :-)
I daresay the Cories wouldn't do their song today either.


Jeff.

[Mike1]

I daresay the Cories wouldn't do their song today either.

Roy Williamson passed away, some 15-16 years ago, so that would be one heckuva reunion tour.

[RockyR]

I'm sorry if anyone found it offensive. I wasn't trying to offend, simply amuse (especially the verse about the frozen twosome)

I enjoyed that even though I must admit I could only understand or appreciate about half of the lyrics, what with their Scottish brogue...

Point of clarification...

Irish have a Brogue
Scots have a Burr (while they both generally refer to the "accent", it's a different word to describe it)

[Barclay]

Just a guess, but I would range the date to be early to mid 80's (Roy Williamson died in '90) from the clothing - but, it's just a guess. They did a series of spots in 1985 on the BBC, so it may be from that.

I found it to be amusing, in spite of the "inappropriate" content and it's a damn sight more respectful (to Scotland) than the Tartan Terror's "Scotland Depraved". But best of all it led to a video for "The Bricklayers Song" which is, and always will be, one of my favorite comedy songs.

Thanks for sharing it!

Edit - Thanks for the lyrics McT of J

[RockyR]

It was taken in 1975.

[MacTavishOfJapan]

Just for clarification, I think it's definitely a product of a long time ago. I find it very funny and I highly doubt that either of Ra Corries was a racist - that was just what was funny back then.

Everyone needs to be able to laugh at themselves and I think this is a great laugh about some of the negatives of Scotland.

[Colin]

The two threads discussing the exact same thing have been merged. Thats to Rocky and Kiltedfirepiper for the link.

[Monkey@Arms]

Those guys were brilliant. I wish I had seen them live.

I saw them in concert in Aberdeen, Scotland sometime around 1986. Nothing un-PC about that show. Great performers. My favorite song of theirs is "I will go" The lyrics are great, but their singing of it, which as I recall was accompanied only by drum, was quite moving.

Best regards,

Jake