Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
left a bar one evening fair
And one could tell by how he walked that
no longer keep his feet
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Then he stumbled off into the
grass to sleep beside the street
Ring ding diddle diddle I de oh ring di
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diddly I oh
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He stumbled off
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into the grass to sleep beside the street
Verse 2
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About that time two young and lovely girls just
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happened by
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And one says to the other with
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a twinkle in her eye
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See young sleeping Scotsman
so strong and handsome built
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I wonder if it's true what they don't
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Ring ding diddle diddle I
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de oh ring di diddly I oh
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I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath
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the kilt
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Verse 3
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They crept up on that sleeping
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And there be hold, for them to view,
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beneath his Scottish skirt
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Was nothing more than God had graced him
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with upon his birth
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Ring ding diddle diddle
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Was nothing more than God had graced
Verse 4
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They marveled for a moment,
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before we move along
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As a gift they left a blue silk
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ribbon, tied into a bow
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Around the bonnie star,
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the Scots kilt did lift and show
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I de oh ring di diddly I oh
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Around the bonnie star,
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the Scots kilt did lift and show
Verse 5
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Now the Scotsman woke to nature's
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call and stumbled toward the trees
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And in a startled voice he says to
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what's before his eyes.
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O lad I don't know where you
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been but I see you won first prize
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O lad I don't know where you been but I
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see you won first prize
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