Subject: Rye on the rocks? Mine's a gin
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 04:07:19 GMT
Believe me, chaps. Phoebe was wrong too.
(Though NOT, of course, necessarily, Salinger
by extension.)
But no Scot ever sang: ‘IF a body ...’
I first heard the song from my mother’s lips when,
as a tiny infant, I was being inducted into the secrets
of Scottish martial arts out on the snow-driven
slopes of Glen Shee. Since then, how many thousands
of times? As sung by Kenneth McKellar, Andy Stewart,
Helen Morrison, Fr. Sidney McEwan, Morag Henderson ...
Just try singing it yourselves. (How many of you know
the tune?) As the very first word, ‘If’’ would be far too
soft, fluffy, ambivalent. Whereas ‘Gin’ - with that hard,
uncompromising ‘g’ - lends just that inexorable, downward-
slicing, characteristically Caledonian quality that starts
you off on the right foot.
Scottie B.
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