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 [ … ]
Category: Paul Anderson poems
From Culloden to Yemen, by Paul Anderson
via From Culloden to Yemen, by Paul Anderson
Say No More to Nuclear Spending. Scotland Needs Its independence!
Say No More to Nuclear Spending. Scotland Needs Its independence! Tories tell lies. They lay them thick and we are supposed to swallow it. There is no magic money tree [ … ]
Save the Charlie Reid Centre! Save Scotland! by Paul Anderson (2014)
Save the Charlie Reid Centre! Save Scotland! by Paul Anderson Oh Scotia! What is freedom worth? if it does not defend those of lowly birth Those disabled in body or [ … ]
One Splendid Easter Day
The Resurrection is oft times in my heart It always means a great new start But this year it is even better My love is renewed and knows no fetter [ … ]
Scotland Arise!
Scotland Arise! by Paul Anderson Nov 2017 Land is land and oil is oil It should belong to those who toil Scotland arise! Fair is foul and foul is fair. [ … ]
Wee Jimmy’s Union Song
Wee Jimmy’s Union Song I had a zero contract job Delivering pizzas for ten bob I left it for a cup of tea. Now they are gonna fire me I [ … ]
Black Triangle
Black Triangle for Disabled Rights poem by Paul Anderson June 2014 Black Triangle “Labour” brought in Atos to humiliate, rip a hole in the welfare state. Thousands dead within three [ … ]
Don’t Cry for me! Cool Britannia
Don’t Cry for me Cool Britannia It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel That I shred a tear after all that [ … ]
London Calling
London Calling (in memory of Joe Strummer RIP) London calling to all Scottish towns War is declared and a battle come down London calling to make you vote ‘no’ Know [ … ]
All Jazzed up and Nowhere to Go
All Jazzed up and Nowhere to Go Once I was a millionaire It was a dream, it was a prayer It was so great I now could gig Play a [ … ]
A Farewell to Erin
A Farewell to Erin an hour is a lang, lang time when sweet it is remembered a tune that fill’d the mountain pass the moment that we enter’d Though devious [ … ]
Glasgow Arise!
Glasgow Arise! (Tune : The West’s asleep) Here we are in Glasgow Town A city now of world renown So many eyes have seen the Clyde La Passionara’s arms so [ … ]
Ode to my little planet
Through the vastness of the universe, I come to settle on you like a loved one, another alien, a target of my dreams, whizzing on the electric giant milky way, [ … ]