{"id":21204,"date":"2023-06-10T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=21204"},"modified":"2023-06-10T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:22:52","slug":"twelve-and-a-tanner-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/twelve-and-a-tanner-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve and a Tanner a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Twelve and a Tanner
Twelve Bob and a Tanner<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1920<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Will Fyffe<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN8104 6334<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Will Fyffe<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Stewart, Belle; Scotland : Perthshire; no date 1950s\/60s?
McPhee, Elizabeth; Scotland : Perthshire; 1955
Unknown singer; Scotland : Perthshire; 1955
Modern performances<\/strong>
Hamish Imlach, Robin Laing<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lyrics transcribed from recording by Jim Dixon<\/strong>\n\nIt's really high time that something was done\nTo alter the way that the country is run.\nThey're not doing things in the way that they should.\nJust take for instance the price of the food.\n\nTwelve and a tanner a bottle, that's what it's costin the day.\nTwelve and a tanner a bottle! It takes all the pleasure away.\nBefore ye can get a wee drappie, ye have to spend all that ye've got.\nHow can a fella be happy, when happiness costs such a lot?<\/em>\n\nThere's taxes on this, taxes on that.\nWhile we're getting lean, the officials get fat.\nYou must admit it's a bit underhand,\nPuttin a tax on the breath of the land,\n\nNoo I used to meet with some old pals o mine,\nWhen whiskey was cheap an it went doon like wine.\nNoo I never meet them, I'm sorry to tell.\nI dodge roond the corner an I drink by mysel,<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A song written and performed by the great Will Fyffe <\/a>– champion of the Scottish working man. It was a hit in the 1920s and has remained in the repertoire of Scottish traditional singers ever since. It has been collected several times from members of the the important Scots traveller\u00a0community based in Blairgowrie., Perthshire and also features on Hamish Imlach’s 1969 album Ballads of Booze<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will Fyffe sings it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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