Highland Games - Firkin

As I put my nose in Pitlochry

One sunny highland noon

Why the sun, of course soon disappeared

So I stayed there in the gloom.

There were many a well dressed lads o’er there

And dressed up all in kilts they were

Their faces red with tossing the caber

Putting stone and drinking whisky

The poles they threw were big as trees

I’d never risk me life to move them

Hammers that they threw so far

Would surely rip my shoulders out

So I sought a pub and sat meself

And turned to things were meant for me

Then drank a beer then two then three

And soon I dreamed of mighty feats

Fly, fly, fly up to the sky

Fly, fly like a sweet firkin lullaby

Fly fly, fly up to the sky,

For my spirit from the whisky’s getting high.

I befriended many a chums

While stood the ground and sat and drank

And stood some rounds and did not know

What I could say to pissed them off

But suddenly a punch arrivéd

From the ether to mine ear

Deductively I soon derived

That I should have another beer

(or two, or three, perhaps a wee dram too)

So that befell in Pitlochry

Not so very long ago

And though it still shows on me face

I still would have another go

For though the punch was hard, the whisky

Poured to me was smooth and creamy

'nd ever since I tasted it/ It firkin raised me kundalini

Fly, fly, fly up to the sky

Fly, fly like a sweet firkin lullaby

Fly fly, fly up to the sky,

For my spirit from the whisky’s getting high.