Hoo do you think I get the songs I sing?
Do you think they're just written richt off?
Weel, it's not so.
A song, for me, you'll ken, is muckle mair than just a few words and a melody.

It must ha' business.

The way I'll dress, the things I do, the way I'll talk between verses--it's all one.

A song, if folks are going to like it, has to be thought out wi' the greatest care.
I keep a great scrapbook, and it gaes wi' me everywhere I go.

In it I put doon everything that occurs tae me that may help to make a new song, or that will make an old one go better.