THE AMERICANS AND SCOTCH SONGS.
The Americans have no love for Scotch songs. They cannot make head or tail of the lanignaa|, and they are frank enough .to confess it. In Chicago, Wat kins Mills was called upon by a handful of Scotchmen to sing Hatton's rollicking ditty, "Tho Marriage of Shon Maclean," but wfftn the eong was over the applause came exclusively from the men who had demanded it. The other members of tho audience looked blankly at the singer, and wondered to gracious what on earth he had been 'talking about." "What does he mean by 'every pip?r was fu'?" asked a puzzled Chicagoan of on© of the Scotch men in the interval. " 'Fu' means 'full.'" was the reply. "Well," snapped tho practical and nnpioturesKjue native of the pork country, "and what's tho matter with the whole word, anyhow?"
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12483, 20 April 1906, Page 7
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