Paddy Buchanan (32) gives one last performance of Princie and Jean after it won him the Elgin Rotary Bothy Ballads Champion of Champions title.
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00:00 [Applause]
00:07 Thank you so much. I wasn't expecting that. I honestly cannot believe it.
00:14 This is the single greatest honour of my life. I'm so chuffed. Thank you.
00:21 It's an absolute pleasure. As Mr Lovie says, we're our good friends.
00:27 We love what we do and we were all sitting backstage having a dram and saying,
00:31 "Well, we all did good." So it's a successful weekend.
00:36 So I suppose you want me to sing again, do you?
00:43 You're taking two bottles for that one.
00:46 That's fair.
00:51 I'll sing you a song, oh can't he, old body
00:57 A king's fickle figure with his all-what-he-brown
01:02 A trustworthy hand at the mains of drunk laudy
01:07 Sing the day he began to work there as a loon
01:13 And saying there is by lay, he proved himself canny
01:20 His work conscientious, particular and clean
01:26 Tell the day his maester says, "What he, my money?"
01:32 He'll tag the third pair, their card, Princey and Jean
01:39 Now in our bonnie Scotland there was not a human
01:45 As wappy as what he, we has done de pair
01:50 And he seemed held his aim with a laser polluing
01:55 And oh, he was prudel as gelding and mare
02:01 A grand pair of blocks, neither likes nor honour
02:07 We could so rich, glossy, ebony sheen
02:12 And had polluing matches for years when they went out
02:17 Oh, as wappy for grooming we Princey and Jean
02:24 Now wappy and invited, content with his duties
02:30 But life's full of changes as a body cares
02:35 Dick repital aged, claimed the bath of his beauties
02:40 And tractors began to appear at the mains
02:46 Now a steering wheel wappy, just would not be gripping
02:52 He frogged his anna on a man, did not complain
02:57 But Aberdeen noticed, down hill he was slopping
03:02 Down hill he was pining for Princey and Jean
03:09 And knew he's a wham, his travels are ended
03:15 A God fearing body, Fye did his best
03:20 His life was a sermon, the mourners are counted
03:25 On Tuesday last week, Fenton we laid him to rest
03:31 And we had a thought, though we did not divulge it
03:37 As we hankies we dabbed, the tears failing
03:43 That if he Fye was born in a manger say well zet
03:49 They'll be waiting for wappy, his Princey and Jean
03:57 [applause]