{"id":1671,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/loch-ness-monster"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"loch-ness-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/loch-ness-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCH NESS MONSTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

There was a monster, a Scottish monster
\nWho lives in far Loch Ness, a very fine address
\nAll the hoteliers and postcard selliers
\nAre making fortunes every year<\/p>\n

Folk see her cruising when they’ve been boozing
\nIn the pale moonlight – what a fearful sight
\nAnd if you get fu’, you might see her too
\nWhat a tale to tell your wife<\/p>\n

I sing of a monster that lives in Loch Ness
\nShe makes the headlines in the national press
\nPerhaps she’s employed by the Daily Express
\nTo separate tourists from money<\/p>\n

And from England, France and Germany and places far and wide
\nWith their cameras they hide behind the trees
\nEvery year a new invasion’s coming from a foreign nation
\nThey crawl about the banks on hands and knees<\/p>\n

And they’ve got submarines and diving-bells and all the latest gear
\nThey come to hunt our Nessie with high hope
\nThey go diving in the water but till now they haven’t caught her
\nAnd she’s down there laughing up their periscopes<\/p>\n

They couldnae get a picture, a picture, a picture
\nThey couldnae get a picture, she wouldn’t put her head up
\nThey couldnae get a picture, a picture, a picture
\nThey couldnae get a picture, she wouldn’t put her head up
\nThey couldn’t see the hump o’ her, they couldn’t see the rump o’ her
\nThey couldn’t see the hump o’ her, she wouldn’t put her head up<\/p>\n

There was a student, a Scottish student
\nWho blew up rubber tyres and strung them all with wires
\nHe set them floating and sat there gloating
\nWhile folk took pictures by the score<\/p>\n

And the whole world heard Nessie’s name again
\nAnd the Tourist Board played its game again
\nPlease don’t tell them you heard me sing this song
\nAnd her name will live forever more<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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