Author: William Topaz Mcgonagall

Beautiful city of Edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen, With your ancient palace of Holyrood and Queen’s Park Green, And […]

A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the […]

Beautiful Loch Leven, near by Kinross For a good day’s fishing the angler is seldom at a loss, For the […]

Success to Mr J. Graham Henderson, who is a good man, And to gainsay it there’s few people can, I […]

Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great […]

‘Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the “Samuel Crawford” […]

Success to the good and skilful Dr Murison, For golden opinions he has won From his patients one and all, […]

Chorus Bonnie Helen, will you go to Callander with me And gaze upon its beauties and romantic scenery Dear Helen, […]

Beautiful new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay, With your strong brick piers and buttresses in so grand array, And […]

On one occasion King James the Fifth of Scotland, when alone, in disguise, Near by the Bridge of Cramond met […]

Margaret Simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of Ayr, With a comely figure, and face of […]

Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to […]

I’m a rattling boy from Dublin town, I courted a girl called Biddy Brown, Her eyes they were as black […]

There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And […]

‘Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced […]

Beautiful Balmermo on the bonnie banks of Tay, It’s a very bonnie spot in the months of June or May; […]

‘Twas in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers, A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years; Which was meant […]

‘Twas on the heights of Alma the battle began. But the Russians turned and fled every man; Because Sir Colin […]

‘Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of September, Which many people of Honan, in China, will […]

‘Twas about the beginning of the present century, Bill Bowls was pressed, and sent to sea; And conveyed on board […]