Name: Rab Up The Back
Duration: P00H02M10S
Description: A true story about an open mic in a Glasgow pub. (Also the chorus is a reference to my song Post Barrowland Blues)

Rab Up The Back

from Wee-er & Dearer by Elsie MacDonald

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A true story about an open mic in a Glasgow pub. (Also the chorus is a reference to my song Post Barrowland Blues)

lyrics

They've pinned the boy of fourteen to be the next big thing in the local scene
And I'm trying to get a word in about more gigs for women

And the bloke sitting next to me says there's a bit of Sinead O'Connor about me
Not in my looks mind, he could never be that kind

But Rab up the back thinks I'm the next Billy Bragg
Oh Rab up the back says i'll make Billy Bragg
If I try

Now he's shouting at the guy on stage "D'you know what mate
You look a bit like Robert Smith but you sound like bloody piss"

But Rab up the back thinks I'm the next Billy Bragg
Yeah Rab up the back says i'll make Billy Bragg
If I try

Now Dave says he's been here going on 10 year
I don't think I can face it but he thinks I might make it

And Rab up the back thinks I'm the next Billy Bragg
Oh Rab up the back says I'll make Billy Bragg
If I try

Oh Rab up the back thinks that I'm a class act

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from Wee-er & Dearer, released September 1, 2022

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Elsie MacDonald Edinburgh, UK

edinburgh's coolest folk-punk singer-songwriter from Dundee

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