UNCLE DAN
MY UNCLE DAN
by
Matt McGinn
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My Uncle Dan’s a decent man
He never was a weed
But they made him up a gaffer
And it went to the poor man’s heid
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On the day he was promoted
The men all drank wi glee
But he fined them all a half a crown
When he caught them drinking tea
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Aroon and roon the boats he went
Ye’d hear him sniff and smell
To catch the men all dae’in the things
That Dan had done himself
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He ventured up a funnel
Wi a homemade ladder rope
So he could keep an eye on things
Wi a great big telescope
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The boilermen got busy
And they began to stoke
And poor old Dan went overboard
In a great big cloud of smoke
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A fortnight came and went its way
And Dan was thought for deid
But they picked him up at the tail of the bank
Wi a herring wrapped roon his heid
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My poor old Auntie Jessie
She took it awfae sore
She was weeping like a well when Dan got back
On the shoulder of the man next door
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