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Bogheid
Sung by Jim Reid on Jim Reid: I Saw the Wild Geese Flee
Words and music by Jim Reid/Springthyme Music © 1984
One of Jim’s songs which, he is keen to point out, is entirely fictional. As he says, ‘Bogheid’s piggery is totally free from any kind of aroma – ouch, my nose is getting longer!’
Frae Lunan Bay tae Dickmont Law,
Jist gie yer nose the lead;
It’ll aye tak you the quickest way
Tae the fairm they ca Bogheid.
Dounwind o Bogheid,
And ye’ll wish that ye were deid;
Ye can plainly tell by the Hell of a smell
Ye’re dounwind o Bogheid.
Bogheid it has a piggery,
Well kent the country roun;
For the wind near shook it tae the grund
In Lindsay Ross’s tune.*
Noo Ethie Castle’s a gey braw place,
A stately home indeed,
But ye widna want tae bide there lang
When ye’re dounwind o Bogheid.
Ken Grant will trudge through sleet an snaw
Tae gie his coos their feed,
But the peer beasts will jist hiv tae stairve
When they’re dounwind o Bogheid.
The fishermen have got a trick
When fishin aff Reidheid,
They pit the claespeg on their nose
When it’s dounwind o Bogheid.
But ye ken the ferm workers
They’re a stout and a hardy breed,
An they never hiv a cough nor cauld
When they’re workin at Bogheid.
Dounwind o Bogheid,
And ye’ll wish that ye were deid;
Ye can plainly tell by the Hell of a smell
Ye’re dounwind o Bogheid.
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* This line refers to a tune The Wind that Shook the Piggery composed by Lindsay Ross about the farm of Bogheid.
c p 1984, 2009 Springthyme Records
www.springthyme.co.uk
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