From My Fathers Ashes

From my Father’s Ashes (Freddy) The wind blew west in Monaghan as it rained down on Afghanistan pity not the dead but the fools who think they live as happiness is to live for others He was born just after the nightmare of World War One joined the RAF when the next one begun He […]

Sleepwalking as False Love Rules

Sleepwalking as False Love Rules All is good when you sense no signal of cruel deeds not yet visual Each broken promise with an excuse but each new carrot becomes a noose strangling all your hopes of freedom cannot grasp that she ll mislead ’em. Who is she that misrules a nation? Not […]

The Battle of of Kenmure Street.

Will you gang tae Kenmure? Racist Sheriffs at the door Glasgow folk are saying nae mair. They have taken to the streets man! Folk fae Govan and Castlemilk fae the Gorbals and its ilk Descended to stop the Tory bilk We welcome Glasgugees man! The UK team were playing at tug surrounded by the […]

Freedom

Ode for the 700th anniversary for the Declaration of Arbroath

Ode for the 700th anniversary for the Declaration of Arbroath Not for riches, not for glory Play your role in Scotland’s story Freedom is our destiny A place in time that will always be. Not for wealth not for honour Liberty’s our mighty author Freedom is in our very soul Our love, our life our […]

The Battle of the Bell o’ Brae

The Battle of the Bell o’ Brae Oh Let us visit Scotland’s past May her stories ever last In the minds of honest men, Who have taken to our streets again Let us remember the pincer move Devised by Wallace, who was so brave, At Glasgow Cathedral on a summers’ day To […]