Mother Glasgow - Hue & Cry

In the Second City of the Empire

Mother Glasgow watches all her weans

Trying hard to feed her little starlings

Unconsciously she clips their little wings

Mother Glasgow’s succor is perpetual

Nestling the Billy and the Tim

I dreamt I took a dander with St. Mungo

To try to catch a fish that couldnay swim

Mother Glasgow’s succor is perpetual

Nestling the Billy and the Tim

I dreamt I took a dander with St. Mungo

To try to catch a fish that couldnay swim

Among the flightless birds and sightless starlings

Father Glasgow knows his starlings well

He won’t make his own way up to heaven

By waltzing all his charges in to hell

Mother Glasgow’s succour is perpetual

Nestling the Billy and the Tim

I dreamt I took a dander with St. Mungo

To try to catch a fish that couldnay swim

And the tree

And the fish

And the bird

And the bell

Let Glasgow flourish!