Jacky O' Down Under



Well, a lager and lime on a Saturday Night

That was our Sydney Nolan and Les Murray,

our cocktail of delight



Mackerel skies, dark blue and grey,

Oh, conceding the sun to Jacky O'

Down Under



Live jazz in The Amphora,

Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird in the Burns Howff,

The Barrowland our Moulin Rouge,

Bill Forsyth our Baz Luhrmann, Gregory's Girl.



Darts, snooker, dominoes, Space Invaders

Our Dame Edna Everage, our Sir Les Patterson,

Eating the newspaper wrapped around your fish supper

'Newsfeed' they'd call it on the BBC or Fleet Street.



Minnows in the burn, that was our Great Barrier Reef

Doon the water at Saltcoats and Stevenson, our Bondai Beach.

Demon drinkers from a Tam o' Shanter Burns' Night

Witches on brooms and auld Scottish words like eldritch,



Tapsaleteerie meaning topsy turvy - this is the fiddle

that plays the jigs and reels, our Waltzing Matilda and Greensleeves.

Rab C Nesbitt, Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan,

They were our Tasmanian Devils and Crocodile Dundee's



Mackerel skies, dark blue and grey,

Oh, conceding the sun to Jacky O'

Down Under



Tennent's lager, Carlsberg or McEwan's, our Triple X;

Roman numerals for great beer, great sex - XXXX

Dumbarton Rock and Edinburgh Castle,

Our Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Ayers Rock.



For koalas we had haggis running in the fields

and Westies for our own Scottish dog breed.

We had everything to play for, and beat the Socceroos.

To qualify for the World Cup 2026, we put in four past the Danes.



Mackerel skies, dark blue and grey,

Oh, conceding the sun to Jacky O'

Down Under.