Only they don't know it, and they don't realize how I'm cheating them by making them pay to hear me and then do a deal o' my work for me as well.
It's a great trick to get an audience to singing a chorus wi' ye.

Not in Britain--it's no difficult there, or in a colony where there are many Britons in the hoose.

But in America I must ha' been one o' the first to get an audience to singing.

American audiences are the friendliest in the world, and the most liberal wi' applause ye could want to find.

But they've always been a bit shy aboot singin' wi ye.
They feel it's for ye to do that by yer lane.
But I've won them aroond noo, and they help me more than they ken.
Ye'll see that when yer audience is singing wi' ye ye get a rare idea of hoo they tak' yer song.