There's something about the skirling of the pipes that fires a man's blood and sets his feet and his fingers and a' his body to tingling.
Whiles I'd be wi' the band masel'; whiles I'd be off elsewhere.

But it got sae that it seemed I was being of use to the country, e'en though they'd no let me tak' a gun and ficht masel'.

When I was in America first, after the war began, America was still neutral.

I was ne'er one o' those who blamed America and President Wilson for that.

It was no ma business to do sae.