Here's to Good 'Ol Whisky
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
1967
Track ID
36739
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1967.144.B1
Original Tape ID
Summary
A comic song based on real events, in which a dustman discovers filter pads soaked in whisky in a distillery's waste. He takes them home and has his wife puts them in the spin-drier to recover the whisky.
Bob Bertram's own composition; he remarks that the dustman was able to keep recovering whisky from these filter pads for quite some time before he was found out, probably by someone turning him in to the police.
Item Notes
4 verses and choruses of 4 lines. Melody a combination of different tunes. Bob Bertram's own composition
Language
English, Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good