KINLY STICK

Brian Johnstone; Vocal/4-String Banjo. Dave "Kid" Seigel; Concertina. Gail Gibbard; Penny Whistle, Maia Holliday & "Sound Effects Group". Chorus.


I' the big room at Barclay's the auld stick he stands,
graspin' the bell-rope wi' cauld shaky haunds.
Ask why he lingers, and sadly he'll tell,
hei hesneh got a copper so he canna ring the bell. 

CHORUS: Ring the bell Kinly, ring, ring ring! 
Heather Jock's approaching the good news to bring,
He's pawn'd his upper garments, they say he has done well
So Ring the bell, Kinly stick, man Kinly ring the bell. 
(Final Chorus: " O! Ring the bloody bell"!). 

2. Heather Jock enters, while Kinly yet greives,
Hei stands an' he stares all in his shirt-sleeves.
Kinly hails him wi' a shout which n'ither could excel
And Heather's brief response was "Man Kinly Ring the bell"! 

CHORUS: 
3. "Hauf a gill for the twae"! Then Heather he did cry.
"Drink and be off"! Was the landlord's quick reply.
Then heather he did quaff the half-gill the himsel'
and left the Kinly no' a drop though he did ring the bell! 

CHORUS:
4. "Oh, Heather that's unfair"! The Stick did loudly cry.
"I drank them "_quo Heather_ "Because that I was dry"!
"-But gin ye'll come wi' me, my sark I wull sell-,
And sune we'll baith come back again and RING THE BLOODY BELL"! 

CHORUS.