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who are these hooded hoards
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swarmin over endless plains
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stumbling on cracked earth
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ringed by the concrete horizons
only a lassie drew her long black hair oot tight


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fi th gouge yir een oot gang
oh aye
they made sure that he wiz deid
waving thir banners
in th toon centre
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oh aye
comes t us aw


in springtime

the sharpeyed hoodies

search the moor

ready to eat the eggs

left unprotected


hoodies fly strongly

and walk along the ground

occasionally        hopping

courtship includes bowing

with outspread wings and tail


the hooded crow

is a criminal    a menace


mainly sedentary

some populations migrate

present all year

Scottish breeding range

retreating

as carrion

spreads north


in England it is known

as the grey crow


the crows wait

to pick off straying nestlings


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ringed by the concrete horizons

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ringed by the concrete horizons


once you’re in these flats

your doomed

you can’t get out


you’re in the right scheme

for drugs crime and vandalism


you walk round a corner

    there’s a wee junkie

you walk round another

    someone’s spraying menshies

you walk round another

    and some cunt’s deid


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fi th gouge yir een oot gang

they made sure he wiz died

waving thir banners

in th toon centre

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oh aye        comes t us aw