Oh my, sometimes it was awful but we were all in the same boat. We were fed, clothed, loved. We made the best of it. I had a wonderful 50s and 60s childhood and remember everything in the song. God bless our Maws and Das. They did everything for us. Heroes all. All of my older family are dead now, even some cousins and good pals.
Adam mcnaughtan was my english teacher at john st secondary school between 1974-78.he also wrote the famous "jeely piece song".a wll known song tae all glaswiegans.
i have been down south now for thirty three years but thanks to you tube i can listen to my fellow scots i was at tormusk school in castlemilk when adam made the jeely piece song and even to this day i still remember old tenements in the gorbals living on the top flair ma granny throwing sweeties doon fur us wains and the jeely pieces ah memories of the place still warms me when i think aboot the room and kitchen wae the coal fire i go on to the website abbot my hometoon and cannae believe what the councils have done tae the community of castlemilk and the ols glasgow town.god bless scotland and the people i left behind and some who are no longer around.
I first learned this song when Adam McNaughton (the writer and singer) was my Engish teacher at Rutherglen Academy in the late 1960s. In the 1990s Adam had a wee book shop in Parnie Street near Glasgow Cross but I have not seen him for a long time now.
@@Clark76 Wow Amazing. Tell him thanks as I just learnt this song in 2021. I'm a Capetonian and it's easy for me to maneuver the Scottish Accents in this tune. Very Amazing tune. Like that he included road names and things which is around us daily. For me it's a stand off between this tune and The Midges song.
We’d occasionally get Adam to give us a song in his English class. Rutherglen Academy, 1971 it was. And he did it with a full throated delivery too. He’d somehow been awarded the title “Lurch”, the reason (if any) for which was never made clear... few like him in a pun’ o’ mince!
@edward0988 "Bauchle" - the opposite of "big yin", usually a "wee bauchle" is used to describe a shabby-looking person, especially a small one. A "bauchle" was originally a worn-out shoe.
@goinghomesomeday1 you right we had nuthing , but wee wer happy and made our own entertainment. no matter what we did it wis great. fai a wee swing to looken for bootles to cash in . great days eh
the shulpit we bochle, ( last line of the song) does anyone know what that means? This is a great song really capture the the street culture of old Glasgow. Thank you for posting.
