Man canna live, after a', on ledgers and accounts.

Much o' the work that's done i' the city's just the outgrowth o' what the country produces.

And the trouble wi' Britain is that sae many o' her sons ha' flocked tae the cities and the toons that the country's deserted.
Villages stand empty.

Farms are abandoned--or bought by rich men who make park lands and lawns o' the fields where the potato and the mangel wurzel, the corn and the barley, grew yesteryear.
America and Australia feed us the day.

Aye--for the U-boats are driven frae the depths o' the sea.