They'd come tae me wi' mining stocks, and tell me how I could become rich overnicht.

You'd no be dreaming the ways they'd find of getting a word in my ear.

I mind times when men wha wanted to reach me, but couldna get to me when I was off the stage, hired themselves as stage hands that they micht catch me where I could not get away.
Aye, they've reached me in every way.

Selling things, books, insurance, pictures; plain begging, as often as not.

I've had men drive cabs so they could speak to me; I mind a time when one, who was to drive me frae the car, in the yards, tae the theatre, took me far oot of ma way, and then turned.
"Now then, Harry Lauder!" he said.