Aberdour is heaven
Of that there is no doubt
But Tam the Gun was a chum
of Edinburgh
and thereabouts.
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Everyday at one o’clock
All below would turn
Dear me, I say, what was that?
then, recognition comes
Oh, it’s just Tam, the locals say
Firing that big bloody gun
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Who’ll replace him by Mons Meg
The light, the charge,
The powder keg
Who will mark that lonely hour
Now Tam has gone To Aberdour.
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Note: A factual poem…
‘Aberdour is a place which I think is heaven on Earth…
This is a poem to the memory of Staff Sergeant Thomas McKay MBE, who fired the 1 o’clock gun from Edinburgh Castle for 25 years, which originally set the the time for shipping in the Forth Estuary…’
Colin…
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