St Govan Chapel
...Saint Govan’s Chapel
They stood with their raincoats and rubber boots at the top of the cliff
Clothed in anger and fear they braced the elements and honoured the Saint
A hermit had lived in ...
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Categories:
govan, love,
Form: Free verse
Growing Up In Govan As a Wain
...Growing up in govan as a wain
We didny have much in they days
But we'd wid never complain .
We were happy way wat Yeh geed
Nae body gret or yed get a slap on the heid.
Aw the games we aw used t...
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Categories:
govan, childhood,
Form: ABC
Govan Lass Written In Glesga Slang
...Am a lass fae Govan
There a wiz born n breid
When a wiz wee a wiz playing tig on the dykes
N a split ma poor wee heid
Fae Glesga to Fife
Wiz where we went
To a flat in Methil
That ma maw goa...
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Categories:
govan, adventure,
Form: Verse
Glass Ceiling
...I was born in Green Valley, west of Liverpool, west of Sydney, Australia.
It's like being born in the Bronx, or Tottenham, or Shankhill, or Govan in Glasgow.
I might as well have been born there to...
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Categories:
govan, change, class, faith, history,
Form: Light Verse
The Pride of the Bhoys
...Known they are as the Lisbon Lions
But of the West of Scotland were they scions.
Etched in history is their name
Because of that 1967 game.
Immortality upon them is endowed
As they made the...
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Categories:
govan, funeral, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Rhyme