Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Part 33
I have always loved Jim O ‘Rourke version of ‘Women of the World’, but it is only recently that I discovered it was written by none other than our late, great national treasure: Ivor Cutler.
I have since obtained a copy of this & Jim O’Rourke’s version is fairly true to the original.
This discovery along with the fact that he was deeply involved in the Summerhill School another 60s/70s obsession of this writer pointed me to Wikipedia to learn some more.
Someone once described his work as that of, ‘exaggerated Scottishness’, I love that phrase, but it is perfect for Cutler.
I believe we should stop being British and go back to the old Whiskey Galore’ days when no-one understood us!
In addition, a Google search turned up this little gem that serves as an apt little endpiece to this or perhaps an epitaph:
‘No I Wont’
‘I’ll leave you with this thought
No, I wont. It will not be fair’
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