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Here's to Good 'Ol Whisky

Date 1967
Track ID 36739
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1967.144.B1

Original Tape ID

SA1967.144

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

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good