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The Corries
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A man came ridin' oot the west one wild and stormy day
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He was quiet lean and hungry, his eyes were smoky grey
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He was lean across the hurdies but his shooders they were big
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The terror o' the Hielan glens, that was The Portree Kid
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(chorus)
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He drum ho, he drum hey
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The teuchter that cam frae Skye
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(chorus)
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His sidekick was an orra' man and oh but he was mean
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He was ca'd The Midnight Plough-Boy and he cam fae Aberdeen
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He had twenty seven notches on his cromack so they say
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And killed a million Indians, way up in Stornoway
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Portree booted in the door, he sauntered tae the bar
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He poured a shot o' crabbies, he shouted "Slainte Mhath"
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While midnight was being chatted up by a bar room girl called Pam
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Who said well howdy stranger, would you buy's a babycham
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Now over in the corner sat three men fae Auchtertool
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They were playing games for money, in a snakes and ladders school
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The fourth man was a southerner who'd come up from Macmerry
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He'd been a river gambler, on the Ballachulish Ferry
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(chorus)
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Portree walked tae the table and he shouted shake me in
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He shoogled on the eggcup, he gave the dice a spin
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He threw seven sixes in a row and the game was nearly done
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But then he landed on a snake, and finished on square one
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The game was nearly over and Portree was daein fine
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He'd landed on a ladder, he was up tae forty nine
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He only had but one to go and the other man was beat
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But the gambler couped the board off, and shouted you're a cheat
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Men dived behind the rubber plants to try and save their skins
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The accordionist stopped playing, his sidekick dropped the spoons
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He says I think its funny, you've been up that ladder twice
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And ye a'ways dunt the table, when I go to throw my dice
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(chorus)
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The gambler drew his Sgian Dubh as fast as lightning speed
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Portree grabbed a screwtop, he cracked him o'er the heid
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Then he gave him laldy wi' a salmon off the wall
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And he finished off the business, wi' his lucky grousefoot's claw
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Portree walked up tae the bar, he says I'll hae a half
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And d'ye like the way I stuck it on that wee Macmerry nyaff
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But the Southerner crept up behind his features wracked wi' pain
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And gubbed him wi' an ashtray, made oot o' a curling stane
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The fight went raging on all night till opening time next day
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Wi' a break for soup and stovies aff a coronation tray
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It was getting kind o' obvious, that neither man would win
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When came the shout that stopped it all, there's a bus trip comin' in
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(chorus)
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They sing this song in Galashiels and up by Peterheid
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Way down o'er the border, across the Rio Tweed
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But what became o' Portree, Midnight and the gamblin' man,
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They opened up a gift shop selling fresh air in a can
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(chorus)
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Frae Skye
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Frae Skye
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Frae Skye
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