Well, it seems pretty obvious what the song is about. It's an attack on animosity and hatred towards people who aren't "pure" scots, like asian or eastern european immigrants. The Proclaimers are objecting to the idea that just because you're not Scottish born and raised and with ancestry stretching back to the Celts it makes you somehow a lesser person.
This stanza in particular, I think highlights this:
In Scotland's story I'm told that they came
The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane
But where's all the Chinese and Indian names?
They're in my lands story and they're all worth the same
A very uplifting and important message, this, and Craig and Charlie deserve a big pat on the back for preaching it.
Well, it seems pretty obvious what the song is about. It's an attack on animosity and hatred towards people who aren't "pure" scots, like asian or eastern european immigrants. The Proclaimers are objecting to the idea that just because you're not Scottish born and raised and with ancestry stretching back to the Celts it makes you somehow a lesser person.
This stanza in particular, I think highlights this:
In Scotland's story I'm told that they came The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane But where's all the Chinese and Indian names? They're in my lands story and they're all worth the same
A very uplifting and important message, this, and Craig and Charlie deserve a big pat on the back for preaching it.