Midlothian's Deid?!

  Pair leafy hame

  what starts in smiles goes doon in flame

   it's no the ordinary folk Ah blame

  folk like ma ancestors, Forsters, Nightingales, Stanley's an the yin or twae Reid

   it's the rich and powerful , those whae'd caw new hooses "Cameron Gardens".. AYE THAIM!

 an ir the reason thit nou Midlothian's deid.



 The futures in the city, the youth are rightly movin' oot

 it's aw gaun oan in Embra, guid reason tae uproot

 "it's where ah've aye been", "Ah dey ken what yer oan aboot"

   Iverybdy wants tae live or work or shope in the city insteid

forward tae death or back tae fossils, the point's almost moot  

 an sae nae surprise,  Midlothian's deid.


Post office closures, Bilston Inn shut

   Services an amenties git cut

    Ye dinnae need thaim nou, "NUT! NUT ! NUT!"

    Trim thaim oaf like thir weed

    BUT...

  Nou, Well nou Midlothian's deid!



Yince green belt countryside, nae choped wuid's bark
    Capitalism came in an hus made it's mark
     Ah'm the last yin tae think the  past guid or tae hark

bit look aroond, the place swallaed up bi greed
   Nou aw posh hooses, ASDA an Straiton retail park
  Nou Midlothian's deid.


pit villages an toons soulless an emptie
   The tories won that battle  we aw kin agree
     where the Bilston Colliery yince yaised tae be                        
     are nou strike breakin' polis receivin' calls it the base in Loanheid
    Aw a kin say is "A.C.A.B."

  Nou Midlothian's deid.



Roslin Chapels deean since Dan Broon                    
    ever since floods ay glaikit American tourists made it droon
    Same folk must hink thirs   cheese craters  oan the moon
 Victim ay it's ane popularity, eroded bi folk wi an empty heid
     thirs yin boarn ivery minute, every roslinlee needs thir loon
      an sae ken it or no,  nou Midlothian's deid.



In the referendum, Midlothian said "NAW"
hung oan tae the union like a dug wi a burst fitbaw

Ah dey ken aboot humpty dumpty, bit somebdy banged thir heid oaf the waw

   Mcnae-sense claim tae operate oot ay hypocritical  Need

   Ah'm no shair thirs any hope ataw
  nou Midlothian's deid.


We've gote the Pentlands an the Apprentice Pillar

yin horrible rape an yin famous mibbe mibbe no Killer

Pirates an mentions in a Walter Scott Thriller

It's buggered bi high heid yins who oan the same shite feed

midlothian people need tae git a firm hand on the tiller

sae Midlothians no yit deid