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I'm a sky scraper wean, I live on the ninteenth floor But I'm no goin' oot tae play any more. 'Cause since we moved to oor new house I'm wastin' away For I'm getting one meal less every day.
Chorus: Oh ye canna fling pieces oot a twenty story flat Seven hundred hungry weans will testify to that ...
I'm a sky scraper wean, I live on the ninteenth floor But I'm no goin' oot tae play any more. 'Cause since we moved to oor new house I'm wastin' away For I'm getting one meal less every day.
Chorus: Oh ye canna fling pieces oot a twenty story flat Seven hundred hungry weans will testify to that If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the bread is plain or pan The odds against it reaching us is ninety-nine to one
On the first day my Maw flung oot a daud o' hovis broon It came skitin' oot the windae and went up instead o' doon Noo ev'ry twenty seven hours it comes back into sight Cause my piece went intae orbit and became a satellite
On the next day my Maw flung me oot a piece again It went up and hit a pilot in a fast, low flying plane He scrapped it off his goggles, shouting through the intercom The Clydeside Reds have got me wi' a breid 'n jelly bomb
On the third day my Maw tho't she would try another throw The Salvation Army band was standin' doon below 'Onward Christian Soldiers' was the tune they should've played But the Oompah man was playing piece 'n marmalade
We've wrote awa' to Oxfam to try an' get some aid We all joined together and have formed the Piece Brigade We're gonna march to London tae demand our civil rights Like nae more hooses over piece flinging height
Lyrics are:
I'm a sky scraper wean, I live on the ninteenth floor
But I'm no goin' oot tae play any more.
'Cause since we moved to oor new house I'm wastin' away
For I'm getting one meal less every day.
Chorus:
Oh ye canna fling pieces oot a twenty story flat
Seven hundred hungry weans will testify to that
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