Cup your hand to your ear can you hear it now

the sound of the past coming through the mists?

the Scots are coming once again

unleashed on a trip down memory lane.

 

Those Christmases in black and white

with Andy Stewart and Kenneth McKellar

burst with goodness like a dose of salts

to set our hearts and voices aflame

 

in the middle of our monopoly game. 

For fireside cheer it could'na be beat

with a jig and a reel and a highland fling

and a fair wee lassie on the wing. 

 

Now we've lost them, Val Doonican too

with his rocking chair sharing the view,

now Strictly unwinds, a curse on legs

it's another competition of dross and dregs,

 

it's what the people want they say but

i'll back the bagpipes the swirl and the sway

in black and white to light up the night

and just as good if you're high as a kite.