Source: Horntip Collection - Half-Mind Hymnal 2011

Lyrics

A traditional folk song, with some added verses

A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair, One could tell by how he walked that he’d drunk more than his share, He fumbled round until he could no longer keep his feet, Then stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.

CHORUS: Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.

‘Bout that time two young and lovely girls just happened by, One says to the other with a twinkle in her eye, “See yon sleeping Scotsman so strong and handsome built, I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear beneath their kilt?”

Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear beneath their kilt?

They crept up on that sleeping Scotsman quiet as could be, Then lifted up his kilt about an inch so they could see, And there behold for them to view beneath his Scottish skirt, Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth.

Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth.

They marveled for a moment then one said “We’d best be gone, But let’s leave a present for our friend before we move along.” As a gift they left a blue silk ribbon tied into a bow, Around the bonnie spar the Scotman’s kilt did lifted show.

Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, Around the bonnie spar the Scotman’s kilt did lifted show.

The Scotsman woke to nature’s call and stumbled toward the trees, Behind a bush he lifts his kilt and gawks at what he sees, Then in a startled voice he says to what’s before his eyes, “Lad I don’t know where you’ve been but I see you won first prize.”

Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, “Lad I don’t know where you’ve been but I see you won first prize.”

EXTRA VERSES: Our Scottish friend still dreseed in kilt continued down the street, He hadn’t gone ten yards or more, when a girl he chanced to meet. She said, “I’ve heard what’s ‘neath that kilt, tell me is it so.” He said, “Just put your hand up miss, if you’d really like to know.”

Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, He said, “Just put your hand up miss, if you’d really like to know.”

She put her hand right up his kilt and much to her surprise, The Scotsman smiled and a very strange look came into his eyes. She said, “Why sir that’s gruesome,” and then she heard him roar, “If you put your hand up once again you’ll find it grew some more.”

Ring ding diddle diddle i de o, Ring di diddle i o, “If you put your hand up once again you’ll find it grew some more.”