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I added the lyrics * as sung here* at the end of this description.This was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia on April 1, 1988. I really like the faster pacing of this live version versus the studio recording.Silly Wizard members in this clip:Andy M. Stewart: lead vocals, tenor banjo, whistlePhil Cunningham: accordion, piano, synthesizers, whistle, cittern, vocalsJohn Cunningham: fiddle, vocalsGordon Jones: guitar, bodhran, vocalsMartin Hadden: bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, vocalsDonald come up the hill hard and hungry,Donalds come doon the hill wild and angry;Donald will clear the gouk's nest cleverly, [gouk = cuckoo]Here's to King James and to Donald McGillavry.Come like a weigh-bauk, Donald McGillavry, [weigh-bauk = scales]Come like a weigh-bauk, Donald McGillavry,Balance them fair, and balance them cleverly:Off wi' the counterfeit, Donald McGillavry.Donald come o'er the hill but his tether, man, As he were wud*, or stang'd wi' an ether, man; [wud = mad][ stung by an adder]When he comes back, there's some will look merrily:Here's to King James and to Donald McGillavry.Come like a weaver, Donald McGillavry,Come like a weaver, Donald McGillavry,Push about, and in and out, thimble them cleverly Up wi King James and with Donald McGillavryDonald has foughten wi' rief and roguery; [rief = banditry]Donald has dinner'd wi banes and beggary, [banes = bones]Better it were for Whigs and WhiggeryMeeting the devil than Donald McGillavry.Come like a tailor, Donald McGillavry,Come like a tailor, Donald McGillavry,Push about, and in and out, thimble them cleverly,Up wi King James and with Donald McGillavry.Donald's the callan that brooks nae tangleness; [callan = fine fellow]Whigging and prigging and a'newfangleness, They maun be gane: he winna be baukit, man: [baukit = balked]He will hae justice, or faith he'll tak it, man.Come like a cobler, Donald McGillavry,Come like a cobler, Donald McGillavry;Beat them, and bore them, and lingel them cleverly, [lingel = shoemaker's thread]Up wi' King James and wi' Donald McGillavry.Donald was mumpit wi' mirds and mockery; [lulled with flattery]Donald was blinded wi' blads o' property; [blads = lots]Arles ran high, but makings were naething, man, [Arles = Thrashing]Lord, how Donald hes flyting and fretting, man. [flyt = scold]Come like the devil, Donald McGillavry,Come like the devil, Donald McGillavry; [skelp = chastise]Skelp them and scaud them that proved sae unbritherly, [scaud = scold]Up wi' King James and wi' Donald McGillavry!

Channel: Music Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: NoRefillsLeft

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