A Song For Kilts

[Pour1Malt]

I posted this a looong time ago! :mrgreen: I'm a bit of a Robert Service buff myself. Besides "A Song for Kilts", Service also wrote "The Ballad of How MacPherson Held the Floor", which is my favourite of his poems, and "The Haggis of Private McPhee", which is also very good.

Service, whilst born in Lancashire, lived in Scotland and always had an affection for it. Nowadays there are actually Robert Service Dinners, similar to a Burns Supper. I got invited to one in the Yukon in Whitehorse, but, alas, I couldn't go! :sad: There is also one held in Killwinning, Scotland, and there is a monument to Service there.

Cheers,

Todd

ai recited "The Haggis of Private McPhee" a' a Burns Supper a couple a years ago...

crackin guid poem!

[macwilkin]

ai recited "The Haggis of Private McPhee" a' a Burns Supper a couple a years ago...

crackin guid poem!

Aye, that it is! A friend of mine recited at last year at the Burns Supper in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Cheers,

Todd

[Alan H]

Ihad no idea about Robert Service and the Scotland connection....FANTASTIC...