He was a son of Scotland But a father to Rhodesia Once {Unintelligible}, and Glengarry This is the story of his life Like many men before him So raise your drums and drink a toast to Harry In a tiny village in the Lowther Hills By the name of Wanlockhead A sturdy Scottish laddie Was born and raised and bred Was a misty rugged mining palce twixt hills of purple and green And they sent him down the pit to work when he was in his teens The the 14-18 war was waged so he joined the Royal Scots He was just 15 so they sent him home, before he fired any shots But the HLI didn't ask too much so he took another chance Cos' they needed Scotsmans, Warriors, to fight the foe in France Ramadodamdodamday, doth your old Glengarry Raise your drums and drink a toast to Harry In that campaign he was wounded twice but he lived to tell the tale Then came demob and he needed a job so to Africa set sail On the good steam-ship Modassa, she was all of 9,000 tonne Pride of the British-India line, bound for Dar es Salam Mombassa, Tanga, Zanzibar, there were many a port-a-call He was pleased to put foot on good dry land After many a gale and squall Then he met an Elephant hunter, Mr. Chitty was his name Who said "Come to Kikoma" on the Central Railways train Ramadodamdodamday, doth your old Glengarry Raise your drums and drink a toast to Harry Then down Lake Tanganyika on the {Unintelligible} To a place that they once called Bismarck Court{?} Where few white men had been But he did not fancy hunting so in the red African dawn He walked the length of that great lake To a place called Abercorn (Mbala) The he heard there was some mining At a place called Broken Hill (Kabwe) It took 5 days to get there, on the way there were many a spill Because of the ol' black water, went south to Bulawayo When he got well with the {Unintelligible} to Zvishavane he did go Ramadodamdodamday, doth your old Glengarry Raise your drums and drink a toast to Harry He worked around Rhodesia, North South and East and West Looking for the kind of thing that woiuld suit his pocket best The came the great depression so with a Mauser in his hands Returned to Tanganyika to the {?} Gold rush lands He staked a claim, went panning in the {?} stream Searching for that nugget that was ever digger's dream But the gold ran out so he sold his picks and pans To a woman called Rose What she was gonna do with then, only heaven knows Ramadodamdodamday, doth your old Glengarry Raise your drums and drink a toast to Harry So he travelled north to {Unintelligible} To a place called Kaiserhof {?} But nothing ever happened there And soon he had had enough So back to old Ujiji, and the crystal lake's white shore Where Livingstone and Stanley had met some years before Sailed off on the barren Dallas {?} To Albert {?}'s fair harbour And travelled there to Gobalo {?} On the river Lualaba, on a mighty paddle steamer To the railhead at Bikoma {?} Road the {Unintelligible} railways, back down to Angola Ramadodamdodamday, doth your old Glengarry Raise your drums and drink a toast to Harry