William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
William Walton
Do not take a bath in Jordan
Gordon
On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day!
Said the huntsman
Playing on his old bagpipe
Boring to death the pheasant
And the snipe -
Boring the ptarmigan
And grouse for fun -
Boring them worse
Than a nine-bore gun
Till the flaxen leaves where the
Prunes are ripe
Heard the tartan wind a-droning
Through the pipe
And they, heard Macpherson say:
"Where do the waves go; What hotels
Hide their bustles
And their gay ombrelles?
And would there be room for me? -
Would there be room
Would there be room for me?"
There is a hotel at Ostend
Cold as the wind, without an end
Haunted by ghostly poor relations
Of Bostonian conversations
(Like bagpipes rotting
Through the walls.)
And there the pearl-ropes fall like shawls
With a noise like marine waterfalls
And "Another little drink
Wouldn't do us any harm"
Pierces through the sabbatical calm
And that is the place for me!
So do not take a bath in Jordan
Gordon
On the holy Sabbath on the
Peaceful day-
Or you'll never go to heaven
Gordon Macpherson
And speaking purely as a private person
That is the place - that is the place -
That is the place for me!
Scotch Rhapsody was written by William Walton & Edith Sitwell.