Bo’ness – Children’s Fair
There are songs too:
See The Summer Sun Is Gleaming
Shining Bright O’er Land And Sea,
Nature’s face with smiles is beaming
Symbol of festivity
All the Earth is gay and gaudy,
Mirth and joy together stray,
Bright Sol lendeth All his glory,
To illume Our Festal Day.
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
With a laugh loud and long,
with and dance and a song,
We hail our festal day
Woods have donn’d their fairest garments,
Flowers, refreshed with morning dew,
Brighten sylvan nook and valley,
With the beauty of their hue.
Hill and upland, green and golden,
Where the whin and broom hold sway
Echo back the glandsome chorus
Hail! All Hail Our Festal Day,
Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
With a laugh loud and long,
with a dance and a song,
We hail our Festal Day.
(Words:R.Fleming, Music:E.C.Schofield)
There’s another one about “we hail our festal queen today” but I can’t find it online – which is a scandal! 🙂 I’ll see if I can find it to transcribe!
35 replies on “Bo'ness Fair Day”
The Bo’ness fair micht claim braw airches, But they canny match the LITHGAE MAIRCHES!!!
HAIL THE ROSEY POSEY. THE MARCHES IS THE REASON I LIVE
Ocht! The Bo’ness airches are some of the best in Scotland, you’ve just got to look around on a good Fair ee’n to know that. DEANBURN’S GOT THE QUEEN!!! Expect guid, braw, hot weather its always like that when deanburns got the queen! Just teake a look at the fair five years ago, it was so ot that even the retinue were sweltering, guid if you were a fairy mind you!
Hello Hello… we are the Bo’ness Boys…….. Wits the Marches aw about ? loada crap if ya ask me likes… lol…… Bo’ness Fiar Days Attendence cud be cut in half and still have mare than the crap Marches…… Hail Hail Bo’ness Fair Day
“Ocht! The Bo’ness airches are some of the best in Scotland, you’ve just got to look around on a good Fair ee’n to know that. DEANBURN’S GOT THE QUEEN!!! Expect guid, braw, hot weather its always like that when deanburns got the queen! Just teake a look at the fair five years ago, it was so ot that even the retinue were sweltering, guid if you were a fairy mind you!”
Too right BONESS FAIR DA THE BEST!
“The Bo’ness Fair is, Just a gala day, just a gala day, just a gala day.
The Bo’ness Fair is just a gala day, but we’ve got the Mairches too!”
litgae could never touch the Bo’ness Fair as the marches is just an excuse for a P**s up! we do it in style and its a aboot the bairns!! Hail Hail!
Andy……. cum 2 Bo’ness and we’ll show u a Childrens Fair Festival! yer mairches and yer GALA DAY will never ever compare to the best day in the year THE BO’NESS CHILDRENS FAIR FESTIVAL!
get a grip ya silly wee laddie!!
sorry andy….. ur on ma side, the last message was 4 litgi mairches! wot an arse!
whats the marches, whats the marches, WHATS THE MARCHES ALL ABOUT? yer GALA DAY is a load a p*sh! MON EH BONESS CHILDRENS FAIR FESTIVAL! SIMPLY THE BEST DAY OFF THE YEAR! NUHIN COMPARES TAE THE BONESS FAIR! HAIL HAIL!!
how come every1 fi lithgae always trys to slag the bo’ness fair if u ask me i think it is just jealousy
Ye’s ar aw mental. Everbiddy kens the Bo’ness fair day is the way tae go. Me an ma cizens nivir miss it.
I’ll likely be daein a live set at it in 2005 so keep yer e’en peeled.
Peace oot
G-Snedd
Guid tae see G-Snedd back inda hoose.Lookin furrit tae the live set.Is it on the day o’ The Fete?
Ye could dae a live set on tap o’ yin o’ they open top bus tour hings.
Keep it Real
Twae False Hands.
Awrite Falsey
Ye’re no wrang! On the back o the success o ma Christmas Record – Bo’ness Christmas (Save The Weans) ah’m really up for the Galaday this year.
Ah’ve been soonded oot by a few o the toon faithers aboot daein a set, ma agent (ma cizen Airchie)is talkin in negotiations wi thum the noo. Time no quite set yit, but it looks like ah’ll be daein it at the Dean, just afore the rain comes oan. Ah’ll be appearin an the Lithy Mairches tae this year as a gesture o guid will betwixt the two toons.
It’s aw guid. Ah’ll keep ye postit ma brither.
Peace oot.
G Snedd
Guid tae see ye back Snedd, are ye up for an eftershow perty efter the show? Ma guid cizin’s mither’s laddie’s haein a do on fair nicht.
Come oan doon man, as many wobbly eggs as ye kin eat!
Eftershow pairty efter the show? When else wid ye hae an eftershow pairty ser?
Ha ha! Ye ken, ah love ma toon that much!
Onyway, the new album will be started in the summer shouldny take me that long tae dae. Ah’ve awready goat 4 tracks mair or less complete.
Ah hope the hale toon will be up for it as much as I um.
Oot. Til the next time.
G-Snedd
O Lithgy Mairches you’re so wack,
You’re so wack,
You make my brither-in-law’s mither cack,
O Lithgy Mairches
Hey G-Snedd,no waantin tae rock yir vibes bro’,but some eh the Home Boys urnae too pleased wi’ ye daein’ the Mairchies gig man.Ah mean yir Bo’ness through n through,right?Dinnae want aw this’guid brither’ relations wi’ the Linlithgow Loch Toffee Nose Collective.Suggest ye just keep it tae the GalaGig..it’ll be kinna like Live Aid wi Bucky..or oor ain kinna T In The Park..we could caw it ‘E In The Park’!
Keep It Real..
Awrite False Hons?
Ye ken, I dig whit yer sayin aboot the Lithgy Mairches gig an that, but see, that wis the Auld G-Snedd o a couple o years ago whae wid’ve poured scorn on Bo’nesian-Lithgyite relations. Given that noo, in the post 9/11 world, we’re aw encouraged tae invest in a culture o suspicion and mistrust for oor fellow man, it’s no entirely beyond me why ye wid adhere tae this draconian viewpoint. But trip on this homeladdy, wid ye no raither see the transcendence o’ this panic/consumer driven mentality which has the western world firmly in its grip, and pursue the amelioration o’ Bo’nesian – Lithgyite parlance at least at a shallow level o dicourse? Whit a mean is, we dinny hae tae trust them per se, but we could at least extend some form o metaphorical olive branch, to wit, a gig at their mairches. By daein this, no only, in oor ain wee way, dae we appear proactive in promotin a common, lateral mentality o peace, but we also gradually chip awa’ at this subliminal, unspoken compromise o oor ain human values which is essentially perpetratit and perpetuatit by self interestit governments an’ corrupt multi-nationals whae seek tae dae nuhin but specifically target and exploit the inherent fear o the common man, in other words: you and me, ma brither. Come on Falsey, fight the power ser. Whit dae ye hink. Huv a goat a point or no? Dae ye want the young yins in Bo’ness tae live accordin tae oor rules, or the rules ay monolithic boardroom fat cat, or worse still a publicity hungry politician wi nae scruples? It’s ye’re choice, ken?
A bit deep Sneds ma man,
Whit happened to keepin’ it real and being stupit like the rest o’ the Bo’ness Massive, huv you been seein’ that Radcliffe-Wells cent ahent oor backs again?
Well, there’s some hings a boy just hus tae git aff his chist in the interests o his toon, ken whit ah’m sayin? Ah huvnae been seein’ onybody behind naebidy’s back at nae time nivir. Whit ye tryin tae dae? Accuse me o collaboratin wi ootsiders?
Awa’!
G-Snedd..huv tae agree wi SSRab,we’re goan back hunners eh years eh fechtin wi the Lithgae brigade,ye cannae jist eckspect thum tae be aw friendly n that in a shoart period eh time..ye ken theres the old Bo’ness line..”Never trust a cent fae Lithgae..cause their a wee bit risky”
Chill oot an hae ahink aboot it Bro..yon dictionary course yir daein at nichtskil’s fair picklin yir heed.
Keep It Real..
Homeladdies, ah totally kin see yer points n that. Ah’m gonnae hae tae hink aboot hings. On yin hand, ah dinny want tae sell oot the Bangladesh Massive. O the other hand, ah dinny want tae start a war ..”G-Snedd disny want tae fight nae mair”. Maybe ah’ll consult the Angel O’ Bo’ness on this yin, although as ye’s’ll hear on the new album, the Angel and I arney exactly on the best o terms at the moment. Ah’ll tell ye whit, Robbie Williams wis right…pimpin isny easy! Whit a kerfuffle.
Lauren Beglin is the Queen,Mandy Graham is the cheif lady,rhiannon Murphy is the queen of the flowergirls,nicole kidd is the queen of the fairies and brian dornion is the Champion.
(i sent this in 2005)
Ocht! So they’ve aw been picked awready? Well that’s gid tae here. Hope it’ll be a braw day. Ye’ll hae tae excuse ma ignorance, but whae’s got the queen this year? Is it the Mingle? Ma wee brither’s cizens laddie’s cizen’s lassie’s dochter’s brither’s lassie, wee Jinty, wis the Queen a few year back. It was gid. Hud a richt gid nicht up the ceentre. We wur aw plastered mind, didny really see wee Jinty gittin crooned, but it’s no really aw aboot that is it? Ah could kindy make her oot on the stage if a shut yin o ma een a bit likes, but the Buckie wis flowin, ye ken how it is! Here, whaur’s the pre-planned yearly fecht gonnae be, at the shows as usual aye? Ah’m too auld fur it masel mind, bit ma laddie’s eftir a scrap. He’s only seeven, bit goad, he’s a wild yin. Should be oot ay Polmont borstal the nicht o the fair e’en.
Here, is there any word o’ ma live appearance jist eftir the croonin o the queen?
(I sent this in 2005 tae hen).
Keep it real, ken whit ah’m sayin?
Bigger!!Ah thot ma wee cherub Pochahontas Sneddon wis in wi a shout fur the floorgal this year,damn!
Ye ken whit it is G-Snedd..too mini ootsiders fae you know where.Boot time the Massive sorted this oot ye ken.Story goan roond the floats ur getting made in Lithgae tae..this cannae be happenin…
Worried Of Mingle
Whit? Wee Pocahontas has missed oot? Hing oan, a thocht we hud a brither oan the selection committee! Richt> This hus went twae far. There’s a song comin oot aboot this very soon. It’s been decidit.
Ah’ll tell ye sumhin else ‘n’ aw, nae float made in Lithgy kin ever be allowed tae turn a wheel in Bo’ness. Ah’m aw fur peace as ye’s ken, but this? This is gonnae make me “Shock and Awe” somebody wi a: lyrical bombardment the likes o which they’ve never seen/but ma team aywis git in between/ the seen and the unseen/like a panther/ I eat meat/and the complete heed and feet/ o an enemy o ma faimily/canny ever tame me rargh! I roar like a mad pig in a rage/get wee Pocahontas oan that stage/cos if ye’s dinny/ah’ll be rich roond tae see ye/and a widny want tae be ye….! Dig whaur ah’m comin fae?
Oot. Gotty rest eftir that rap.
HOY!!! Come back!!! Where’ve ye’s aw went?
Aye..ye goat a bit frichtened there Snedd.Thats the kinnae treatmint ye’ll git if ye start aw this peace noansins wi the Lithgae Bretheren.Time ye took a step back in time an goat yir hunchies up aboot they biggers..either that or we’ll no be buying yir new CD..we ken how tae hit a man whaur it hurts.Thats if ye still ur a man efter mixin wi aw they ponsey types at Uni.How is the jannies joab goan doon there onyway?
Even tho am thoosinds o miles awo, a still hae awe greet evry fair day
Get a grip, you all need to get out of Boness and Linlithgow and get a life.
Life IS Bo’ness wumin!!
Bout time ye samples the Fair and see whit life reely means!An aw yous Lithgi types can jist stoap yir rain dances on the fair-een it’ll jist no wurk ye ken!
The Best Day O The Year Is Nearly Here!!!
Peace ‘n’ Egg Sanwiches!(+Bucky)
Hiya.
The New G-Snedd Album will be available for distribution in September, when a make a return tae the hame land.
Haw Kate, dinny dis the toon. Ye kin hae a pop at Lithgy but please dinny hae a pop at Bo’ness. It’s no oan. It’s self evident that ye huvny experienced the magic o’ the Fair, otherwise ye widny be spoutin aboot gittin oot o the toon.
Easy noo. Reflect on whit ye’ve said.
Naebody’s angry wi ye.
DinnaeKidnapTheFairDayQueenOrWe’llUnleaseOanYe..YullWishYidNeverBeen-Born…DinnaeKidnap….
Fower years oan… ah’m still keepin it real. Git ready for A NEW GSNEDD ALBUM DUE OOT IN 2010 Ya mad baaaaaaaammmmsssssss!!!!!