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Robert W Service - A Song For KiltsRobert W Service - A Song For Kilts
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How grand the human race would be     If every man would wear a kilt, A flirt of Tartan finery,     Instead of trousers, custom built! Nay, do not think I speak to joke:     (You know I`m not that kind of man), I am convinced that all men folk.     Should wear the costume of a Clan.     Imagine how it`s braw and clean     As in the wind it flutters free; And so conducive to hygiene     In its sublime simplicity. No fool fly-buttons to adjust,—     Wi` shanks and maybe buttocks bare; Oh chiels, just take my word on trust,     A bonny kilt`s the only wear. `Twill save a lot of siller too,     (And here a canny Scotsman speaks), For one good kilt will wear you through     A half-a-dozen pairs of breeks. And how it`s healthy in the breeze!     And how it swings with saucy tilt! How lassies love athletic knees     Below the waggle of a kilt! True, I just wear one in my mind,     Since sent to school by Celtic aunts, When girls would flip it up behind,     Until I begged for lowland pants. But now none dare do that to me,     And so I sing with lyric lilt,— How happier the world would be     If every male would wear a kilt!
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