Paddy Buchanan's final performance after bothy ballads win
Paddy Buchanan (32) gives one last performance of Princie and Jean after it won him the Elgin Rotary Bothy Ballads Champion of Champions title.
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00:00 [Applause]
00:07 Thank you so much. I wasn't expecting that. I honestly cannot believe it.
00:14 This is the single greatest honour of my life. I'm so chuffed. Thank you.
00:21 It's an absolute pleasure. As Mr Lovie says, we're our good friends.
00:27 We love what we do and we were all sitting backstage having a dram and saying,
00:31 "Well, we all did good." So it's a successful weekend.
00:36 So I suppose you want me to sing again, do you?
00:43 You're taking two bottles for that one.
00:46 That's fair.
00:51 I'll sing you a song, oh can't he, old body
00:57 A king's fickle figure with his all-what-he-brown
01:02 A trustworthy hand at the mains of drunk laudy
01:07 Sing the day he began to work there as a loon
01:13 And saying there is by lay, he proved himself canny
01:20 His work conscientious, particular and clean
01:26 Tell the day his maester says, "What he, my money?"
01:32 He'll tag the third pair, their card, Princey and Jean
01:39 Now in our bonnie Scotland there was not a human
01:45 As wappy as what he, we has done de pair
01:50 And he seemed held his aim with a laser polluing
01:55 And oh, he was prudel as gelding and mare
02:01 A grand pair of blocks, neither likes nor honour
02:07 We could so rich, glossy, ebony sheen
02:12 And had polluing matches for years when they went out
02:17 Oh, as wappy for grooming we Princey and Jean
02:24 Now wappy and invited, content with his duties
02:30 But life's full of changes as a body cares
02:35 Dick repital aged, claimed the bath of his beauties
02:40 And tractors began to appear at the mains
02:46 Now a steering wheel wappy, just would not be gripping
02:52 He frogged his anna on a man, did not complain
02:57 But Aberdeen noticed, down hill he was slopping
03:02 Down hill he was pining for Princey and Jean
03:09 And knew he's a wham, his travels are ended
03:15 A God fearing body, Fye did his best
03:20 His life was a sermon, the mourners are counted
03:25 On Tuesday last week, Fenton we laid him to rest
03:31 And we had a thought, though we did not divulge it
03:37 As we hankies we dabbed, the tears failing
03:43 That if he Fye was born in a manger say well zet
03:49 They'll be waiting for wappy, his Princey and Jean
03:57 [applause]