Poems (Barbara White)/The Lonesome Scot
The Lonesome Scot
When in a foreign country If some brother Scot you seeWho just came here frae Scotland And he's feeling awful blue,Just tap him on the shoulder And say, your lonesome man, I see,But come right hame along wae me Tae a cup o' guid Scotch tea.
ChorusJust a piece of bread and jelly And a guid Scotch cup of tea,Ye dinna ken tae a lonesome Scot How hamelike ye can be,If it's just a slice of toasted loaf And the least wee bit of cheese,It will make him feel that he's at hame In a foreign countrie.
Away back hame in Scotland It's the custom there you see,When yon gang tae a neighbor's house The first thing you do see,When e'er you step inside the door The kettle they put on,But you find it's awful different When you're far away from home.
Just a piece of bread and jelly And a guid Scotch cup of tea,Ye dinna ken tae a lonesome Scot How hamelike ye can be,When far away frae Scotland And the salt tea dims his eye,[f he meets in wae a brither Scot Who unto him will say.
Patter—Oh man, ye bet you life it will—ye see it's a custom they hae over there, a fashion, just a right hamely feeling that they've got and bonnie and ill pleased they are if ye don't sit doon alang wae them tae a cup of tea, and it's just like this, if ye was making twenty calls in a day i fifty of them ye would need tae sit doon in every house alang wae them if only tae.—Chorus.