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trinkie
31-May-07, 07:44
Murkle Bay
( With apologies to Galway Bay, Thurso Bay and Sinclair Bay)
anon.

If you ever want a necklace for your girlfriend
And you cant afford the prices of today;
Sure, it needn't cost a groat nor yet a buckie,
You'll find it ready made in Murkle Bay.

They may sing of golden strands at Keiss or Galway,
And the witching beams that down the dying day;
But there's naught outshines the string o' sil'vry selags,
That crowns the evening's sport in Murkle Bay.

Ah! 'tis there one finds the native charm of Caithness !
See her shapely limbs go linking up the brae,
As she shoos the homeward train of dappled ducklings
From when they fill such eggs in Murkle Bay.

Though the barren crags of Dunnet frown and fright us,
And the storm clouds dwell on Orkney 'cross the way,
We need never lack the promised ray to cheer us,
There's aye a glint o' green in Murkle Bay.

(For although we'll sell no more Pittodrie Uprights
And our bonnie bulls are all but 'given away,'
Sure the Caithness tup and you've well see their boots off,
And keep the 'Golden Fleece' in Murkle Bay)

Then arise ! ye Caithness bards and sing your best song
Proclaim the golden glories of your day,
For instead of fleeting moonshine over Claddach
There's subsidies an' fish in Murkle Bay.


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