The Proclaimers Live at Stirling Castle

On Hogmanay 2012, one of Scotland's best loved bands, The Proclaimers,

gave an historic performance on the esplanade of Stirling Castle.

They played out the end of the year and welcomed in the new,

with a line-up of classic tracks.

Coming up, the whole of that performance.

This is The Proclaimers Live At Stirling Castle.

# Whatever you've got

# I want some too

# Whatever you're drinking

# I'll drink with you

# You're saying "azure"

# I'm feeling blue

# That's no lie

# Whatever was done

# Unto your hair

# Vidal Sassoon

# Was standing there

# He fought the fascists

# Keep him in your prayers

# That's no lie

# Whatever the time, whatever the place

# Whatever the rhyme, whatever the reason

# I'm giving offence and with your defence

# I think we could have a very good season

# Whatever the rights, I want the wrongs

# Whatever the food, let's hear the gong

# We've spoken the truth for so long

# We need lies

# Whatever the time, whatever the place

# Whatever the rhyme, whatever the reason

# I'm giving offence and with your defence

# I think we could have a very good season

# Whatever the rights, I want the wrongs

# Whatever the food, let's hear the gong

# We've spoken the truth for so long

# We need lies

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got

# Whatever you've got... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Well, I'm happy now

# I don't need a drink to toast to our health

# Now the sun is out

# And the rain is falling somewhere else

# There is misery somewhere

# But I don't know and I don't care

# Since you took it from my shoulders

# I love rock and roll

# It took my hand and it touched my soul

# You do that as well

# You know, you know, you know yourself

# But you beat notes and rhymes

# Any day, any time

# When you walk in a room

# You bring in joy and dispel gloom

# Your sunny side

# It makes my smile a mile wide

# Your charisma is profound

# True love follows you around

# And lays its head upon your shoulder

# I love rock and roll

# It took my hand and it touched my soul

# You do that as well

# You know, you know, you know yourself

# But you beat notes and rhymes

# Any day, any time

# Doo, doo, doo...

# I wonder why it's no good without you

# Like there's a mystery

# Doo, doo, doo...

# When I know the only cure for heartache

# Doo, doo, doo...

# Is a woman that I long to see

# Standing right in front of me

# If we lived a million lives

# I would love you every time

# And be right there by your shoulder

# Whoa!

# I love rock and roll

# It took my hand and it touched my soul

# You do that as well

# You know, you know, you know yourself

# But you beat notes and rhymes

# Any day, any time

# I love rock and roll

# It took my hand and it touched my soul

# You do that as well

# You know, you know, you know yourself

# But you beat notes and rhymes

# Any day, any time

# You beat notes and rhymes

# Any day, any time. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

Thanks very much.

# When you go will you send back

# A letter from America?

# Take a look up the railtrack

# From Miami to Canada

# Broke off from my work the other day

# I spent the evening thinking about

# All the blood that flowed away

# Across the ocean to the second chance

# I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land?

# When you go will you send back

# A letter from America?

# Take a look up the railtrack

# From Miami to Canada

# I've looked at the ocean

# Tried hard to imagine

# The way you felt the day you sailed

# From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia

# We could have held you

# We should have told you

# But you know our sense of timing

# We always wait too long

# When you go will you send back

# A letter from America?

# Take a look up the railtrack

# From Miami to Canada

# Lochaber no more

# Sutherland no more

# Lewis no more

# Skye no more

# Lochaber no more

# Sutherland no more

# Lewis no more

# Skye no more

# Lochaber no more

# Sutherland no more

# Lewis no more

-# Skye no more

-Huh!

# I wonder my blood

# Will you ever return

# To help us kick the life back

# To a dying mutual friend

# Do we not love her?

# I think we all claim we love her

# Do we have to roam the world

# To prove how much it hurts?

# When you go will you send back

# A letter from America?

# Take a look up the railtrack

# From Miami to Canada

# Bathgate no more

# Linwood no more

# Methil no more

# Irvine no more

# Bathgate no more

# Linwood no more

# Methil no more

# Irvine no more

# Bathgate no more

# Linwood no more

# Methil no more

# Irvine no more

# We go Bathgate no more

# Linwood no more

# Methil no more

# Lochaber no more. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

# Let me give praise to your sparkling eyes

# And your coloured hair

# Let me spend ages on poetic phrases

# To show I care

# Let me go grazing on dappled green pastures

# Where you're the mare

# Let me rephrase that

# I think there's a better line there

# Spinning around in the air

# Let me donate something to a kid's charity

# Of your choice

# For you I would willingly be a worse traitor

# Than William Joyce

# If I could sing I would sing you a song

# In Sam Cooke's voice

# Let me rephrase that

# I think there's a better line there

# Spinning around in the air

# Are you happy now?

# Say yeah, yeah, yeah

# Are you really happy now?

# Say yeah, yeah, yeah

# Tell me where it hurts

# It hurts there and there and there

# Adverbs and nouns

# Juicy and round

# Spinning around in the ai-air

# Oh, are you happy now?

# Say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Oh, are you really happy now?

# Say yeah, yeah, yeah

# Tell me where it hurts

# It hurts there and there and there

# Adverbs and nouns

# Juicy and round

# Spinning around in the ai-air

# Madam Onassis took Ari's old glasses

# And put them on

# She said "I see ships" and she started to quip

# About old Boston

# I climbed over her just to climb upon you

# What did I do wrong?

# Let me rephrase that

# I think there's a better line there

# Spinning around in the air... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

This one is going out to anyone who's just about to get hitched.

Or just has been hitched.

And it's called Let's Get Married.

CHEERING

# Huh!

# Ho!

# Yeah!

# Ho!

# Whoa!

# Yeah!

Ow!

# We've been going together

# Too long to be vague

# When there's something to say

# If it's not now, then it's never

# So I'll say it straight out

# Cos I have no doubt, no doubt

# Let's get married

# I love you and I want to stay with you

# Let's get married

# Have kids, grow old and grey with you

# Let's get married

# Hold hands, walk in the park

# Let's get married Whoa, let's get married

# We know other people

# Who drifted apart

# Who broke each others' hearts

# But we ain't other people

# So we'll do things our way

# We're gonna be OK

# Gonna be more than OK

# Let's get married

# We're ready for tying the knot

# Let's get married

# Set the seal on the feelings we've got

# Let's get married

# We can make each other happy or we can make each other blue

# Let's get married

# Yeah, it's just a piece of paper but it says "I love you"

# For the good times

# For the days when we can do no wrong

# For the bad times

# For the moments when we think we can't go on

# For the family

# For the lives of the children that we've planned

# Let's get married

# Come on, darlin' Please take my hand

# Whoa, and I'll be the one

# Who's by your side

# Yeah, and I'll be the one

# Still taking pride

# When we're old, if they ask me

# How do you define success?

# I'll say, "You meet a woman And you fall in love

# "And you ask her and she says yes"

# "You ask her and she says yes"

# Let's get married

# I love and I want to stay with you

# Let's get married

# Have kids, grow old and grey with you

# Let's get married

# Hold hands when we walk in the park

# Let's get married

# All right you can get a cat Just as long as it barks

# For the good times

# For the days when we can do no wrong

# For the bad times

# For the moments when we think we can't go on

# For the family

# For the lives of the children that we've planned

# Let's get married

# Come on, darlin' Please take my hand

# Come on, darlin', please take my hand

-# Come on, darlin', please

-# Come on, baby!

# Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

# Yeah! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

This is a song we wrote many years ago about Scotland.

And it's called Cap In Hand.

CHEERING

# I could tell the meaning of a word like serene

# I got some O Grades when I was 16

# I can tell the difference between margarine and butter

# I can say "Saskatchewan" without starting to stutter

# But I can't understand why we let someone else rule our land

# Cap in hand

# I could get a broken jaw from being in a fight

# I know it's evening when day turns to night

# I can understand why Stranraer lie so lowly

# They could save a lot of points by signing Hibs' goalie

# But I can't understand why we let someone else rule our land

# Cap in hand

# We fight when they ask us

# We boast, then we cower

# We beg

# For a piece of

# What's already, what's already What's already ours

# We fight when they ask us

# We boast then we cower

# We beg

# For a piece of

# What's already, what's already What's already ours

# Once I thought I could make God a bribe

# So I said I was in his lost tribe

# Getting handouts can be so frustrating

# He said, "Get in line, son Cos there's five million waiting"

# And I can't understand why you let someone else rule your land

# Cap in hand

# No, I can't understand why we let someone else rule our land

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# No, I can't understand why we let someone else rule our land

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in hand

# Cap in a-da-da da-da dad a-da

# A-da-da da-da dad a-da A-da-da da-da dad a-da da. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thanks very much.

Two, three, four.

Two, three, four.

# Sean, I'd say the best one came from Tupelo, Mississippi

# I'll tell you now that grown men cry and Irish girls are pretty

# Sean, I'd say the best one came from Tupelo, Mississippi

# I'll tell you now that grown men cry and Irish girls are pretty

# Ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah

# Though fear and hurt and care

# Can lead me to despair

# I saw why I'm here

# The morning you appeared

# Sean, I sat awhile on clouds to ask God if he's living

# I should have spent some time on knees in thanks for what he's given

# What he's given What he's given to me

# Ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah, aye-ah

# Aye-ah, aye-ah

# From parents smart and strong

# To both of us passed on

# From kings is where you come

# Through daughters and through sons

# Oh

# Through daughters and through sons

# Sean, I'd say the best one came from Tupelo, Mississippi

# I'll tell you now grown men cry Irish girls are pretty. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you very much.

# My heart was broken

# My heart was broken

# Sorrow, sorrow

# Sorrow, sorrow

# My heart was broken

# My heart was broken

# You saw it

# You claimed it

# You touched it

# You saved it

# My tears are drying

# My tears are drying

# Thank you, thank you

# Thank you, thank you

# My tears are drying

# My tears are drying

# Your beauty and kindness

# Made tears clear my blindness

# While I'm worth

# My room on this Earth

# I will be with you

# While the Chief

# Puts sunshine on Leith

# I'll thank Him for His work

# And your birth

# And my birth

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# My heart was broken

# My heart was broken

# Sorrow, sorrow

# Sorrow, sorrow

# My heart was broken

# My heart was broken

# You saw it

# You claimed it

# You touched it

# You saved it

# While I'm worth

# My room on this Earth

# I will be with you

# While the Chief

# Puts sunshine on Leith

# I'll thank Him for His work

# And your birth

# And my birth

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

On stage with us tonight, on steel guitar and mandolin, Zach Blair.

CHEERING

# Well, I've got a question, baby

# What makes you cry?

# Cos I haven't seen any water

# In the corners of your eyes

# For a day or a week

# Or a month or a year

# Haven't seen much of you

# Since you left me, my dear

# Can't you see that I'm hurting

# How I'm falling apart?

# Don't you care about my drinking

# Or my poor lonely heart?

# I thought you liked football

# You didn't mind those videos

# And my dog didn't mean To ruin your clothes

# He can't help it

# Now you won't take my phone calls

# You sent my letters back

# You're paying for a lawyer

# To stab me in the back

# Then I saw you on the street

# You looked happy, that's a fact

# I'm impressed It's a hell of an act

# Angel, admit it, admit it

# Darlin', admit it, admit it

# Your love for me didn't die

# It's just sleepin'

# And it wakes every night

# To your weepin'

# Hey!

# Doo-doo doo-doo-doo

# Hey!

# Doo-doo doo-doo-doo

# Now, I hope you can hear me

# Wherever you are

# In a cheap hotel room

# Or the back seat of a car

# I make up those situations

# I don't know if they're true

# But I'll tell you For now, they'll do

-# Angel, admit it, admit it

-Come on, sugar

# Darlin', admit it, admit it

# Your love for me didn't die

# It's just sleepin'

# And it wakes every night

# To your weepin'

# Now, I've got a question, baby

# What makes you cry? #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# There's a touch upon my lips

# Left by memory's fingertips

# I still hear her voice

# When there's no sound

# There's a touch upon my skin

# Left when she went back to him

# All the rest has gone

# She's not around

# When I saw her first It was lust, my friend

# Thought it would burn Then it would end

# But I lost my old philosophy

# Now I believed in love

# Well, the months went by and my love grew strong

# Thought she felt the same but I was wrong

# She held my old philosophy

# Now I'm destroyed by love

# There's a touch upon my lips

# Left by memory's fingertips

# I still hear her voice

# When there's no sound

# There's a touch upon my skin

# Left when she went back to him

# All the rest has gone

# She's not around

# Well, I still believed that I would win

# Cos I was a better man than him

# She held the new philosophy

# Now she believed in love

# But the love she felt was not for me

# Said she would have to set me free

# Now I know there's no philosophy

# That can't be destroyed by love

# There's a touch upon my lips

# Left by memory's fingertips

# I still hear her voice

# When there's no sound

# There's a touch upon my skin

# Left when she went back to him

# All the rest has gone

# She's not around-round-round...

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da

# Da da da-da-da, da da da-da-da. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

# I'm on my way from misery to happiness today

-# Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

-Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

# I'm on my way from misery to happiness today

-# Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

-Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

# I'm on my way to what I want from this world

# And years from now you'll make it to the next world

# And everything that you receive up yonder

# Is what you gave to me the day I wandered

# I took a right I took a right turning yesterday

-# Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

-Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

# Yeah, I took a right I took a right turning yesterday

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# I took the road that brought me to your home town

# I took the bus to streets that I could walk down

# I walked the streets to find the one I'd looked for

# I climbed the stair that led me to your front door

# And now that I don't want for anything

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# I'd have Al Jolson sing I'm Sitting On Top of the World

# I'll do my best I'll do my best to do the best I can

-# Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

-Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

# Yeah, I'll do my best I'll do my best to do the best I can

# Yeah

# To keep my feet from jumping from the ground dear

# To keep my heart from jumping through my mouth dear

# To keep the past The past and not the present

# To try and learn when you teach me a lesson

# And now that I don't want for anything

# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# I'd have Al Jolson sing I'm Sitting On Top of the World

# I'm on my way from misery to happiness today

-# Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

-Uh-huh,

-uh-huh

-# Uh-huh,

-uh-huh Yeah,

-whoa

# I'm on my way from misery to happiness today

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# I'm on my way to what I want from this world

# And years from now you'll make it to the next world

# And everything that you receive up yonder

# Is what you gave to me the day I wandered

# I'm on my way to what I want from this world

# And years from now you'll make it to the next world

# And everything that you receive up yonder

# Is what you gave to me the day I wandered

# I'm on my way

# I'm on my way

# I'm on my way

# I'm on my way. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# When I wake up Well, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you

# When I go out Yeah, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you

# If I get drunk Well, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you

# And if I haver Yeah, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you

# But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more

# Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles

# To fall down at your door

# When I'm working Yes, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you

# And when the money comes in for the work I do

# I'll pass almost every penny on to you

# When I come home Yeah, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you

# And if I grow old Yeah, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who's growing old wi' you

# And I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more

# Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles

# To fall down at your door

-# Da la la la,

-da la la la

-Da la la la,

-da la la la

# Da da da dun diddle un Diddle un diddle uh da da

-# Da la la la,

-da la la la

-Da la la la,

-da la la la

# Da da da dun diddle un Diddle un diddle uh da da

# When I'm lonely Well, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you

# And when I'm dreaming Mmm, I know I'm gonna dream

# I'm gonna dream about the times when I'm wi' you

-# When I go out,

-when I go out

-Yeah, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who goes along wi' you

-# And when I come home

-Ooh, I come home

# Oh, I know I'm gonna be

# I'm gonna be the man who comes back home wi' you

# I'm gonna be the man who's coming home wi' you

# And I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more

# Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles

# To fall down at your door

-# Da la la la,

-da la la la

-Da la la la,

-da la la la

# Da da da dun diddle un Diddle un diddle uh da da

-# Da la la la,

-da la la la

-Da la la la,

-da la la la

# Da da da dun diddle un Diddle un diddle uh da da

-# Da la la la,

-da la la la

-Da la la la,

-da la la la

# Da da da dun diddle un Diddle un diddle uh da da

-# Da la la la,

-da la la la

-Da la la la,

-da la la la

# Da da da dun diddle un Diddle un diddle uh da da

# And I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more

# Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles

# To fall down at your door. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# When I was a younger man

# When I was a silly boy

# I didn't need a thing

# I was strong as anything

# I viewed solitude as a joy

# Since I met you I'm distraught

# Hey!

# You wandered in and now I'm caught

# I never thought I would see

# Someone so truly good

# Someone who's so everything I'm not

# I want to spend my life with you

# Don't want to live all alone

# I can't conceive of the years left to me

# Without you in our home

# But what if what if what if what

# If it's not perfect then it's not

# But every care I take

# Nothing I won't forsake

# To dwell beside what you've got

# Every time I think about you

# I think I can't live without you

# I tell you something I am nothing without you

# I want to spend my life with you

# Don't want to live all alone

# I can't conceive of the years left to me

# Without you in our home

# I want to spend my life with you

# Don't want to live all alone

# I can't conceive of the years left to me

# Without you in our home...

CHEERING

# Without you in our home. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

This is called The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues.

# I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusion

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusion

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# I'm not going to talk about doubts and confusion

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# I'm not going to talk about it I'm not going to talk about it

# I'm not going to talk about it I'm not going to talk about it

# I'd never been to Ayrshire

# I hitched down one Saturday

# 60 miles to Kilmarnock

# To see Hibernian play

# The day was bright and sunny

# But the game I won't relay

# And there was no Kilmarnock bunnet

# To make me want to stay

# But I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# No, I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# When I started walking at Wishaw

# My eyes obscured my vision

# After five miles on my way

# I began to learn to listen

# When I started walking at Wishaw

# My eyes obscured my vision

# After five miles on my way

# I began to learn to listen

# And I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# I've been saying, I've been saying

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# I walked through the country

# I walked through the town

# I held my head up

# And I didn't look down

# I walked through the country

# I walked through the town

# I held my head up

# And I didn't look down

# And I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# Lothian sky, Lothian sky

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# Well, the question doesn't matter

# The answer's always "aye"

# The best view of all

# Is where the land meets the sky

# The question doesn't matter

# The answer's always "aye"

# The best view of all

# Is where the land meets the sky

# That's why I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# Here I go, here I go

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoa

# I'd never been to Ayrshire

# I hitched down one Saturday

# I went the 60 miles to Kilmarnock To see the Hibees play

# The day was bright and sunny

# But the game I won't relay

# There was no Kilmarnock bunnet To make me want to stay

# I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night when I can see with my eyes shut

# No, I'm not going to talk about it

# On a night, on a night, on a night On a night, on a night

# On a night, on a night

# I'm not going to talk about it I'm not going to talk about it

# I'm not going to talk about it I'm not going to talk about it

# I'm not going to talk about it I'm not going to talk about it

# Yeah!

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Ah!

Oh!

Yeah! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you, Stirling! Goodnight!

Ladies and gentlemen, The Proclaimers!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

How good was that?

Awesome!