They're acts of man, and it's for man to mak' them richt and end what's wrong wi' the world he dwells in.
They used to shrug their shoulders in Russia, did those who had enough to eat and a warm, decent hoose tae live in.

They'd hear of the sufferings of the puir, and they'd talk of the act of God, and how he'd ordered it that i' this world there maun always be some suffering.
And see what's come o' that there! The wrong sort of man has set to work to mak' a wrong thing richt, and he's made it worse than it ever was.

But how was it he had the chance to sway the puir ignorant bodies in Russia?
How was it that those who kenned a better way were not at work long agane?
Ha' they anyone but themselves to blame that Trotzky and the others had the chance to persuade the Russian people tae let them ha' power for a little while'?
Oh, we'll no come to anything like that in Britain and America.

I've sma' patience wi' those that talk as if the Bolsheviki would be ruling us come the morrow.

We're no that sort o' folk, we Britons and Americans.