{"id":1320,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-barras"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-barras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-barras\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BARRAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s a spot in Glasgow City that’s well ken’t the whole world o’er
\nIt’s mare famous than the Mona Lisa’s face
\nIt is visited by royalty and rouges frae every airt
\nEverybody kens the barras is the place
\nDid you ken St. Peter lost the keys to yon big pearly gates
\nAnd he thought that he’d get flung oot o’ his job
\nBut a clever angel telt him, ach St. Peter dinnae greet
\nYou can buy one at the barras for a bob<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nOh the barras, oh the barras, there’s no in Rome or Paris
\nYou’ll have tae go tae Glasgow’s Gallowgate
\nThey sell tickets tae the moon, and a return for half-a-crown
\nAnd five bob guarantees a first class seat<\/p>\n

You’ve heard how Samson lost his strength, Delilah cut his hair
\nHe was left as weak and baldy as a wean
\nSo he traveled o’er to Scotland, to the barras for a cure
\nAnd he soon was strong and hairy once again
\nOne day a Frenchman noticed that the Eiffel Tower was gone
\nAnd the president when notified grew pale
\nSo he called oot all his soldiers and they hunted high and low
\nTill they found it at the barras up for sale<\/p>\n

When the Romans came tae Scotland, many donkeys years ago
\nThey got nae further than the Gallowgate
\nFor the lads who ran the Barras swapped them souvenirs for swords
\nThen the fly wee Glasgow keelies had them bate (beat)<\/p>\n

In a school nae far frae Partick Cross the teacher asked the class
\nTell me what do you know about the missing link
\nThen a wee lad in the front row shot his hand up in the air
\nYou will find one at the Barras, sir, I think<\/p>\n

When oor Prince Charlie had tae flee away frae Scotia’s shores
\nSeek refuge far across the friendly main
\nFor the tears ran streaming frae his eyes, hushed words he did speak
\nAch, I love to see the Barras once again
\nSo before I close my story let me give you some advice
\nIf you’re after something cheap or second-hand
\nTake a trip up to the barras for there’s none that can compare
\nTae the things they sell in Glasgow’s barrowland<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a spot in Glasgow City that’s well ken’t the whole world o’er It’s mare famous than the Mona Lisa’s face It is visited by royalty and rouges frae e<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","tag-beer-belly-band","tag-irish-lyrics"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"beerbellycollection","author_link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/author\/beerbellycollection\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"There's a spot in Glasgow City that's well ken't the whole world o'er It's mare famous than the Mona Lisa's face It is visited by royalty and rouges frae e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}