“Och aye the noo”

You can take the girl out of the country
But never the country out of the girl
As she dances her highland fling
with her kilt in a twirl
“Och Aye the noo “ she shouts to her Mam
Meaning “ I shall be there in a minute but I do not give a dam”
“Yee beta hed me hinny”
Says her Mother in a flap
Meaning “You best hurry up my daughter or as you know I will only yap”
“Dinna heat ya witta”
Her doting daughter repied
Meaning “Do not get in a bad mood and all keyed up inside”

“Get yesell doon noo”
Means “Get over here now”
Yells her Mother in a state
“Ay av ee git nae steam”
Meaning “ Can you just please wait”
Replies her dearest daughter very late
“Al gee yee sic a lickin”
Meaning “I will give you a thump”
“Eeh Ma ye ar sic a numpty”
Meaning “ Mother really do not grump”
Yells her beautiful daughter sounding grumpy
“Agnus ye are deein me heed in”
Meaning “ Agnus you are driving me mad”
“Had yer weesht ma”
Means “Hold on  Mother and don’t be sad”

 Well when the bagpipes were done for the day
Agnus stopped her highland flinging and hurried away
Back to the gorbals of Glasgow town
Where she lives in a tenement that is scruffy and run down
Yet Scotland is her home
Way up north of the border
Agnus has nine younger siblings
so she is top of the pecking order
But she adores her life living with her Mother
Tho she misses her Dad coz he eloped with with her Mother’s brother