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The Lonesome Scot——
When in a foreign country
  If some brother Scot you see
Who just came here frae Scotland
  And he's feeling awful blue,
Just tap him on the shoulder
  And say, your lonesome man, I see,
But come right hame along wae me
  Tae a cup o' guid Scotch tea.

Chorus
Just a piece of bread and jelly
  And a guid Scotch cup of tea,
Ye dinna ken tae a lonesome Scot
  How hamelike ye can be,
If it's just a slice of toasted loaf
  And the least wee bit of cheese,
It will make him feel that he's at hame
  In a foreign countrie.

Away back hame in Scotland
  It's the custom there you see,
When yon gang tae a neighbor's house
  The first thing you do see,
When e'er you step inside the door
  The kettle they put on,
But you find it's awful different
  When you're far away from home.

Just a piece of bread and jelly
  And a guid Scotch cup of tea,
Ye dinna ken tae a lonesome Scot
  How hamelike ye can be,
When far away frae Scotland
  And the salt tea dims his eye,
[f he meets in wae a brither Scot
  Who unto him will say.

Patter—Oh man, ye bet you life it will—ye see it's a custom they hae over there, a fashion, just a right hamely feeling that they've got and bonnie and ill pleased they are if ye don't sit doon alang wae them tae a cup of tea, and it's just like this, if ye was making twenty calls in a day i fifty of them ye would need tae sit doon in every house alang wae them if only tae.—Chorus.

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