Hamish Imlach - The Calton Weaver/Nancy Whiskey

I'm a weaver, a Calton weaver
I'm a rash and a roving blade;
I've got siller in my pouches
I gang and follow the roving trade

Chorus:
O whiskey, whiskey, Nancy Whiskey
Whiskey, whiskey, Nancy-o.

As I cam in by Glesca city
Nancy Whiskey I chanced to smell
I gaed in, sat doon beside her
Seven lang years I lo'ed her well.

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The mair I kissed her the mair I lo'ed her
The mair I kissed her the mair she smiled
An' I forgot my mither's teaching
Nancy soon had me beguiled.

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I woke early in the morning
To slake my drouth it was my need
I tried to rise but I wasna able
Nancy had me by the heid.

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"C'wa, landlady whit's the lawin?
Tell me whit there is to pay."
"Fifteen shillings is the reckoning,
Pay me quickly and go away."

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As I went oot by Glesca city
Nancy Whiskey I chanced to smell
I gaed in drank four and sixpence
A't was left was a crooked scale.

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I'll gang back to the Calton weaving
I'll surely mak the shuttles fly
I'll mak mair at the Calton weaving
Than ever I did in a roving way.

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Come all ye weavers, Calton weavers
A' ye weavers where'er ye be
Beware of whiskey, Nancy Whiskey
She'll ruin you as she ruined me.

Chorus

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• hamish
• imlach
• glasgow
• scottish
• tartan

[Macangusagain]

A magical painting in words of a dark period in Scotland's industrial history,which culminated in the slaughter of the Calton Weavers strikers ,by the Third Regiment of Foot, at the orders of the mill owners and the Glasgow authorities of the day, proving that human life was cheap!!! These brave martyrs paved the way for a more civilized discourse between workers and their employers, so in their memory , Albainn gu Brath

[nacho1560]

Ditto, Mac. Same with the mill owners in Dundee. Bairns were beaten regularly for falling asleep there are records of kids being nailed to the loom by their ears.

So much money was raised by these greedy owners that they were able to leave huge tracts of land to the people of Dundee. Caird Park, Baxter Park, etc., called after them.

Some remember the owners, I remember the people who worked long hours for little or nothing.

A curse on the mill owners.

[Eellenne]

Takes me back I've no heard this fur years or Hamish Imlach Thanks for uploading. classic.

[railroadwino]

@nacho1560 a pox on those sons of bitches

[wrexxNZ]

im gonna learn this bad boy on the harmonica

[BrodEirennach90]

Erinn go brach agus Slainte!



[sirhope]

classic Imlach. Thanks. 

[jamesbyker]

takes me back to my childhood..mr imlach...love ure music..

[LOMANDYO]

A truly sad time .

[LOMANDYO]

And a pox on you to you unthinking biddy.

[LOMANDYO]

A pox on you silly person.