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My One and Only Highland Fling
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Dinah Shore
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Though we're called a people of serious mind,
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'Tis often we dance, 'tis often we sing.
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And bein' as human as all human-kind,
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We arrren't superior to havin' a fling.
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I'm taking the fling of a lifetime.
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The fling of a husband and wife-time.
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A-when I a-went rrromancing
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I a-gave no thought to any wedding rrring.
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Every bonnie lassie was
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My highland fling.
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A-no chance was I chancing
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I' a-m not the man ya dangle on a strrring.
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I was canny waitin' for the
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Rrreal, rrreal thing.
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A-though I danced each girrrl in a twist and a-twirrrl
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Ney one would do.
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And I went a-my way 'til the fatal day
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In the fling I was flung a-with you.
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Ohhhh
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Now my hearrrt is prancin'
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A-gay as a larrrk and happy as a king.
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The yearrrs I'll weatherrr, in the hame on the heatherrr,
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With my one and only highland fling.
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I thought you werrre fallin' for Andy MacPherson.
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Ney, ney. He became an impossible person.
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But what about you and that Connie MacKenzie?
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She talked when I putted and drrrove me to frenzie.
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But what of the lad known as Bobby MacDougal?
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It pays to be thrifty, but he was too frugal.
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And werrren't ya daft about Megan McDerrmot?
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I tasted her cooking. T'would make me a hermit.
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How jealous I was of McDonald McCutcheon.
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His neck had a head on, but therrre wasn't much in.
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And what about Sandy?
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His hands were too handy.
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And wasn't therrre a Jenny?
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I'm not wantin' any
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I'm not wantin' any but you.
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When I went a-dancin'
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No special lad I was encourrragin'.
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Every lackly laddie was
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My highland fling.
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No glance I was glancin'.
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Well, nothin' rrreally worth a-mentionin'.
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Hopin', watchin', waitin' for the
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Rrreal, rrreal thing.
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Though they spoke me soft in the moonlit oft',
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Ney one would do.
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'Til it came to pass to this lucky lass
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In a fling I was flung with you.
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Oh...
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Now my hearrrt is prrrancin'.
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Nothin' about ya I'd be alterin'.
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The yearrrs I'll weatherrr, in the hame on the heatherrr,
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With me one and only highland fling.
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