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  • Brian Bowers and he is a scot not irish... And yes Mike Cross wrote it.

  • My great grandfather Showed me this song when i was 6 and ive been in love with ever since

    ....RIP POP-POP

  • Mike Cross wrote the song...

  • Awesome song :-)

  • im part scottish and irish and so what if scots didn't wear undergarments underneath their kilt its the same reason native americans barely wore anything but a washcloth in the summer its style. and don't tell a scot he's gay because he's wearing a kilt that looks like a skirt.

  • I'm Scottish, but living in the U.S. I sing this song every time I go to the local "Irish pub" decent fish and chips for the fact its in Indiana but the ale keeps flowing :D #Freetaxithursdays

  • omgosh this is very funny! i really like it 'two thumbs up!'

  • @1:22 what tartan is that?

  • @gearsofwarpriest It looks a bit like the Black Watch tartan.

  • You've got the name of the song wrong, and the artist, though the person who said Mike Cross was close.

    Look up Bryan Bowers on Wikipedia, title is "The Scotsman".

    Bowers became very popular with the audience of the comedy radio program The Dr. Demento Show with his 1980 recording of Mike Cross' song "The Scotsman". In 1993, Bowers was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame whose membership includes Mother Maybelle Carter, Kilby Snow, and Sara Carter.[2]

  • Fatalinstinct you are an idiot.yes he is an American. Second he probably is of European decent. But he ain't a yank. Yankees come from above Virginia. No he is a southern boy. Never call someone from the southern part of the usa a yank ya never know what could happen to you. Never call a redneck that either you're liable to end up dead.

  • I love transvestites.

  • I'd know that voice anywhere. It's Mike Cross the original composer. Mike wrote this in the 80s and has been performing it ever since. As for the accent -- it's his own. He's a North Carolinian.

  • @skeetshooter28ga Close but not quite. Check Wikipedia.

    Bowers became very popular with the audience of the comedy radio program The Dr. Demento Show with his 1980 recording of Mike Cross' song "The Scotsman". In 1993, Bowers was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame whose membership includes Mother Maybelle Carter, Kilby Snow, and Sara Carter.[2]

  • that was um......a little odd no offices towdes scotish people thou

  • Such a great Song, I'm Scot irish and proud

  • I ain't a yank but I am american scotch-Irish is my heritage I doubt many Europeans would understand that sentiment.

  • Gay...

  • I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!! 

  • No idea why there are so many Guinness pictures, seeing as how Guinness is IRISH.... :P

  • @CeeKayz0rz Its an Irish drinking song about a Scotsman.

  • @CeeKayz0rz Not sure why Youtube is saturated with videos of Scottish traditions like bagpipes and tartan being branded as Irish, when it's really Scottish.

    And why there are Yankees pretending to be Irish or Scottish when they are actually American.

    And why this is a song made by a Plastic Paddie saying a load of rubbish about a so called Scot - who likely isn't even a Scot either but is actually just another Yank pretending not to be a Yank.

  • @TheFatalInstinct1 Fun fact by the way. A lot of Americans happen to have come from *wait for it* *drum roll* Europe!

    Holy crap! You mean Americans draw from their heritage and continue traditional forms of art that were passed down as values from their families!? Nonsense! How is this possible! Their families couldn't possibly pass down anything like that through simply interacting with each other!

    *massive sarcasm*

    Most Americans are in fact of European descent.

  • @Raven1024 Eyup and NOT African. 

  • @BlueTeamPlayer Well there's plenty of African descent and Asian descent in there, but the thing is at this point in time even a lot of that is mixed with European descent.

  • @Raven1024 I like Asians.

  • The artist is Bryan Bowers.

  • This sounds like country rather than scottish. Maybe just a hint of scottish accent.

  • @colonelchris92 It's a Yank (American) putting on a fake Irish accent, badly.

  • @TheFatalInstinct1

    Kind of sad we have to say it but not every American is a "yank."

    That word is an insult reserved for people from the "north."

  • @TheFatalInstinct1 It's not that bad either, sounds about as close as you're gonna get when you're A) singing and B) not from the area originally.

    And lets face it, Irish songs sound like absolute shit without a little bit of (even mediocre) Irish accent thrown on them. Because I like them, but they do sound like shit in any other accent except maybe Scottish....maybe.

  • first ktties, now kilties......the internet is a strange place....

  • 8 guys that don't like kilts

  • i'm half scottish. and i love this rofl.

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  • Guinness is Irish...just sayin.

  • lol 8 scotties

  • Sorry, you are "kilty"!

  • I wish he would have sang the rest of the poem! There is part where a girl runs her hand up his kilt and the she says 'Well sir, that's quite gruesome." and the Scotsman says 'Run your hand up there again miss, and you will find it gruesome more."

  • Jim Stafford.

    1974 I think...

  • Last time I checked, 1 in Dublin, 1 in Derry, another in Belfast

  • John Denver does a good job on this. He is the singer.

  • @Frankllamb  ofcourse! , why didnt i notice that, thanks mate,

  • does anyone has the text of this awsomeness?

  • The correct title of this particular recording is "The Scotsman" from autoharp virtuoso Bryan Bowers' album "Home, Home On The Road" circa the early '80's.

  • LOL YOU WEAR A SCOTSMAN KILT TOO!!! LOOK AT HIS VIDS

  • LOL 6 dislikes on the video, 6 scottish people must have watched this

  • @Mykimchimon Why is that a bad thing you fool? It's a good scottish song.

  • @Mykimchimon im scottish & i like this song btw tht 6 was the english cos they got nothing lol

  • @Mykimchimon Don't be stupid this is a god damn anthem for us xD

  • @Mykimchimon 10 now c:

  • @Mykimchimon I'm Scottish and I find that hilarious. 10 people just don't have a sense of humor

  • 0:35 "twinkle in her eye" ? wtf nice picture

  • what's wrong with the video? it's cool

  • 5 people did not win first prize 

  • "Lad I don't know where you've been but I see you won first prize"

    Haha Ring ding diddle diddle i de o

    Ring di diddle i o

  • they play this song every friday on my ride home from work, gets my weekend started off right

  • im scottish whooo

  • Ill never drink again 0.o

  • This video is crap

  • The group that sings this song is the woodsman tea company

  • @etognoli525 THANK YOU.

  • The group that sings this song is the woodsman tea company

  • Fuck the Irish!!! Long live the Scots!!!

  • @BigKinMT Thats why the Irish fought for 900 long years for their independence, and won, while the scots rolled over and gladly took it up the bum from the brits.

  • @myself7 sadly the irish cant stop fighting with themselves over which way is the correct way to worship God. Scotland has more national pride in the tip of its cock than Ireland has in its entirety.

  • @MiasmaticCatastrophe Is there no limit to yr ignorance? I mean, surely Scottish or not you cannot deny the fact that the Scots have as much a right to 'national pride' as the Irish have credit for inventing the sombrero. Do your homework before you post yr opinion to a public forum, the fighting in Ireland isn't so much religious as it is the freedom to worship as you please. Being Scotch, I couldnt expect you to understand things like courage, bravery, and honor. Ye are a nation of quitters

  • @myself7 Where do you get off talking about which countries have the right to "national pride" and those that don't? I don't understand how anyone can be proud of being american. I mean you are a country of bullies who invade other countries for your own personal gain and I think you need to do YOUR homework since the fighting in Ireland has nothing to do with "freedom to worship" it's people fighting over stupid reasons that aren't important anymore.

  • @myself7 I would also like to point out that I won't see ANYONE being lectured by an american about courage, bravery and honour especially, from an arrogant and cocky eejit like you! being american I can only expect you are an Ignorant, Lazy, Gutless Coward.

  • @scotlandcampbells If you wish to make the debate about nations, and their faults, need I remind you that scotland is part of the U.K? Wait, I suppose the U.K has never "bullied", or invaded other countries? Furthermore, it's funny that an American can be called a 'gutless coward' by a scot, who have never won a war, hell, who lacked (and still lacks) the courage to fight for THEIR OWN LAND! Yours is a nation of cowards, rolling over and accepting British Rule and polishing the crown.

  • Also, what convinces you that the fighting has nothing to do with religion? Have you ever been to Belfast? Go there, talk to the ppl in the streets, smell the smoke and gunpowder for a two weeks, then try to tell ppl that theyre fighting for stupid reasons! My only point was that Ireland and scotland both fought for their independence, but scotland gave up and quit, Plain an simple. Yes, America is full of faults, but so is everywhere else, but @ least we never ran from a fight. 

  • This sounds like the "Irish Rovers"

  • SCOTTISH! Not Irish...*rolls eyes*

  • this isn't an irish song it's scottish and listen to the lyrics before you make a video

  • I'm guessing its just the Scot's who laugh at this? Thought so

  • Its good!! There is not much out there to make i video. hell your doing better then i ever would. great and funny song to

  • Needs more kilted men.

  • (I just had to share this)

    Our Scottish friend, still dressed in kilt, continued down the street,

    He han't gone ten yards or more when a girl he chanced to meet,

    She said, "I've heard what's under there, tell me is it so?"

    He said, "just slip your hand up, Miss, if you'd really like to know."

    -chorus-

  • She put her hand right up his kilt and much to her surprise

    The Scotsman smiled, and a very strange look came into his eyes

    She cried: "Why sir, that's gruesome!" And then she heard him roar:

    If you put your hand up once again, you'll find it's grew some more!

    -chorus-

  • @fjellelv too bad that these verses weren't in the song, maybe they could have been. It would be great if it were and/or is in the song though.

  • WOOT GO IRISH

  • This makes me proud to be a Scot!

  • such an epic Song!

  • Only two fags would fight about a song about another mans dick.

  • Omg Glenfiddich. U disgust me. Glen Dronach is the best

  • outstanding

    

  • Irish drinking song. LOL!

  • VERY FUN SONG FROM MY YOUTH

  • this version of the song is sung by bryan bowers

  • Jim stafford sang the sang the song the song and its the greatest drinking song ever

    

  • Wow, really? You guys are fghting over some stupid reason? Let it go. You're never going to meet each other so its pointless to fight. If your looking to start a fight, go somewhere else

  • What song isn't a drinking song for the Irish? I should know I have enough Isish blood in me.

  • 0:25 Black Watch!! Yeaaa! that's what i wear.

  • Scotsmen do not come from Ireland. It's like having the Star-Spangled Banner played with a video of Canadian maple leaves or Mexican sombreros.

  • I love this song, I almost died laughing when I heard the last verse.

  • Bryan Bowers is singing this version and the video's ok

  • Irish Rovers I believe I've had this song on my ipod forever and that's what it tells me.

  • there used to be a wonderfully funny video of this on Ytube--Every time the guy said "Ring ding..." there appeared a picture of some wierd commercial cookies, or pastries or something --called "Ring Dings!' I laughed so hard I thought emergency medical attention would be needed.

  • Um.... You people do know that this a Scottish Folk song? Not an Irish drinking song!

  • Yes, that was my thougt to!

  • @xnathanj5sx The irish tend to sing lots of things when they drink.

  • @xnathanj5sx,

    This not a Scottish song at all, nothing like a Scottish song either,

    It's a shite retarded ignorant yank made song, made in yankland (americant)

  • @GLORD99092 The G in your name must stand for :"Gay". and i would take a bet that the numbers in your name represent an american Zip code, which would mean that you live in america. that would also make you a hipocrite and a non-patriot. i doubt any country would take such a fool as you, let alone a prestegious first world country.

  • @cyprisjynx The 'G' stands for 'Game' you yanky thick cunt! If you thought it stood for 'gay' then it says more about you than me!

    I'd never ever live in Americunt, it's a shit hole full of fat dumb yank cunts like you, yankland is not a prestigeous first world cun-try, it's an utter shithole, and you can't even spell 'Prestigeous' because you're a typical dumb brain dead yank cunt!

  • @GLORD99092 at least we can insult some one with out having to use the same word 6 times...cunt :)

  • @hardwirecars Ahhh sigh.... another brain dead thick yank cunt who comes to this video to listen to a shit yank made song.

    You lot can barely get your 3 brain cells to work in unison,

    never mind insulting someone with good wit,

    What a lame come back that was...Cunt!...

    Just another typical dumb yank cunt comin str8t outta...*drum roll*...redneckland!

  • @GLORD99092 wait who was this person with good wit cause i sure haven't met him yet

    and in memory of the 4th of July here in AMERICA at least we can kick the shit out of the Brits ya Celtic bastard now shut the fuck up and get a good scotch

  • @hardwirecars, Again...the typical dumb fat redneck yank cunt insults himself by insulting his own masters, all the original founders of the US were from the UK,

    The US anthem was from the UK, the US decleration of freedom was from the UK (Scotland), everything that started the US was from the UK, even the people were from the UK, incl the founders,

    and it's not your country, it's the Indians, they were the natives, so it rightfully belongs to them

    ...how dumb can a yank get?,,,

  • @hardwirecar

    You never met anyone with wit? says the yank, again... a priceless comment!

    A typical yank with typicly only 3 brain cells to rub together woulden't know the difference at all, so using full wit would be a pointless act

    And the Revolution was a fluke, you were let go more than anything really, as the UK was busy with many other wars at the time, & had a deal with India ect,

    Had that not been the case you would be fucked up redneck retards with no country of your own

    Dumb yank cunt!

  • @GLORD99092 again with the cunt

    ya know what ill drop down to your level

    son i bet you aint had pussy sense pussy had you

    now shut your haggis eating sheep fucking mouth up your a dumb redneck cunt of the uk the only claim to fame your little pos country has is your drink ya that makes ya smart talking about killing brain cells at least the us has the brain to exploit the rest of the world and there aint shit you can do about it now get back to your skirt wearin log tossin pig farm.

  • @hardwirecars Hahahahahaha, is that the best a redneck dumb fat fucking yank cunt can come up with? is that what you consider offensive?

    Lame as fuck coming from a yank, the most retarded people in the world,

    you fat dumb redneck yank cunt, we viciously smash your vile foul kind here, cave your fucken face the fuck up, yank women are total sluts, no one in the world likes yanks, your boring, dour, uninteresting, vile, loud. obnoxious and annoying complete dumb set of bastards!

    TOTAL WHITEWASH!!

  • @hardwirecars The US can barely exploit their own braincells never mind the world,

    You have no country, the US is a sham, everything about it was created by the UK,

    and it's not even yours, it belongs to the red Indians!

    So quit acting like it's your country, as it's not yours!

    Nobody wants fuckall to do with yanks, it's the yanks who want to get on with the rest of the world, that's why they stick their fat noses where it doesn't belong,

    You are all plastic Europeans, European cast outs

  • @GLORD99092 hey look at that he can say somthing with out having to say cunt

    your growing look at that.

  • @hardwirecars

    I have insults about yanks that are actually true, as it's proven!

    You however, resort to petty lame harmless name calling and inacurate stereotyping,

    but then again coming from a typical dumb yank redneck cunt,

    it's all a yank can do when against his English & Scottish masters,

    You are a sham of a country with illigitamate bastardised people,

    and the most retarded people in the world, as has been proved!

    No cunt wants fuck all to do with your kind!

    Fucken nosey yank bastard cunts

  • @GLORD99092 look im done waisting my fingers on you

    your nothing but a hate breeding racist prick with nothing better to do but come onto youtube (an american made website) and bitch about people you probly have never met b4

    so i say good day sir

  • @hardwirecar

    Listen yank..why the fuck you starting with me again? FUCK OFF YANK!

    You started this arguement and I will fucken finish it!

    You calling me a racists?! PRICELESS!

    Just scroll down the thread and what re-read what you said about the Scots..

    Youtube is not American and neither is the computer, or the TV

    (TV is Scottish and the telephone too)

    Yanks have more stupid people in it than any other country,

    You use inacurate insults and stereotypes

    I use true insults & facts against yanks

  • @GLORD99092 Now, now, GLORD... I'm not willing to read all of that crap about "dumb redneck cunt yanks" (Seriously? That's your only insult, bud? Very threatening) but! I don't know if you're trying to come off as Scottish or Irish or English or what... Scots, why, I've got no problem with them. The Irish ran to us every time they ran into a major problem, right down to the potato famine. Don't get me started on the Brits. We kicked their asses twice before a real rifle had been born and then

  • @jeffman3 dude GLORD isn't British. He's Italian, check out his profile. He just goes around pretending be like a little Italian faggot

  • @TheTimbalanders Oh... So we've kicked their asses before. Sweet. That's even better! :D

  • @GLORD99092 saved their asses twice, in WWI and WWII. Just because a bunch of shit-for-brains liberals got into power and ran this country into the ground does not mean it's finished. We've taken attacks that most people can hardly fathom and when push comes to shove then we'll buckle down and turn right back into that dreaded war machine all over again.

  • @xnathanj5sx

    No it's not a Scottish folk song, nor was it made by a Scot or in Scotland, it's just a silly little yanky made song!

    It's melody/sound even sounds yankish,

    It doesn't have that typical Scottish melody about it at all,

    So it sounds absolutely nothing like a Scottish song

  • @xnathanj5sx ive noticed that with most ignorant people, they believe that irish and scottish are interchangable. this one chich, made me almost raving mad, was using her 'irish' accent in a resturaunt the other night....fucking scottish-sounding as hell.

  • @xnathanj5sx Why would a scottish drinking song say scotsman? Does'nt make sence to me.

  • this is actually an English song to make fun of the Scottish, we never refer to ourselves as Scotsmen. im Irish Scottish and English grew up in Greenock so i still love this song. however the Irish do refer to it due to the whole account of making fun of them, such as st. paddy's day the true Irish dont wear kilts, and if you were to ask them ware theirs are they would most likely through something in your face and say we dnt wear kilts, we are not Scotts. just a friendly history lesson :)

  • @xnathanj5sx IF it was a scotish folk song dont you think the two girls would know what's under his kilt?

  • @xnathanj5sx May told by the title, SCOTSMAN'S kilt ;)

  • Its in the water that comes down from the Highlands ... makes things "grow" :)

  • the singer is jon denver

  • "Irish drinking song"? :S

  • should be, yes. This is probably the worst video I've ever made. In all truth, I didn't expect so many people to watch it.

  • @gooseberry2k8 dotn be so hard on yourself my friend, you did pretty good. not bad at all for 7 minute video.

  • @gooseberry2k8 meh who cares about the video when you have a song this epic :) well played, sir xD

  • @gooseberry2k8 thats because of the awesome sound quallity

  • @dirtydeedz161 Scot wear kilts. Irishmen wear IRA berets. ;)

  • @nrambold He was just providing interesting information. Stupid prick. Get a life.

  • Just so you know the artist is a famous artist and mathematician called Tom Lehrer :)

  • thankyou very much

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  • @gooseberry2k8 The singer is Brain Bowers

  • @flightcontroller If he's so famous why haven't I heard of him? :P

  • @flightcontroller Actually, it's Seamus Kennedy.

  • @flightcontroller It's really not! You can hear this isn't Tom Lehrer!

    I don't know who it's by, it's interesting people have posted all kinds of ideas here...

  • @flightcontroller Is this Tom Lehrer? I would've never guessed! His coolness just went up a notch.

  • This song is so cute!

  • lol, this was a very funny video.. thanks for uploading it

  • heard this song for the first time at green field village last night for the " holiday nights" funny song

  • Just like the Irish...always tryin to compensate. the lyrics do say SCOTSMAN. :)

  • Compensate for what? :)

  • @gooseberry2k8 our big fuckin dickes that we couldn't fit in our trousers ;)

  • @Americancricket11 lol too fuckin right =]

  • @gooseberry2k8 obviously not an "irish" drinking song then, is it?

  • being irish? :)

  • not being Scottish?

  • @gooseberry2k8 not being scottish

  • @imrcb It's not compensation, it's advertisement

  • @imrcb it was witten by irish people

  • lol!

  • LOL! i always wondered if i could find this song on YT :P and i was able to! thanks for the post!

  • No problem. I actually downloaded the song by accident, so I just thought I'd stick it on here... glad you like it!

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