Absolutely brilliant. The Corries took me through life form the age of 15 when I joined my regiment at age 15 in !969. Till 1975 when I left and moved to Canada.
The corries were and still are Scotlands very best folk group.Would have liked to have seen a folk show on the telly with the Corries Hamich imlach ally mcbain etc.Folk music is excellent humour wise and story telling and history wise.The mainstream people on radio and the telly dont give this style of music the place it deserves.
Some of my best concerts and wolftones memories of all the best time to be there and my older cousin Jay always had to look after me.after one in Edinburgh me and my pal tried to steal a train.absolutely magic.jay I love you jip
Very diverse talents. Fine singers, harmonies and musicians. Great storytellers and humour. Connection with audiences. They were Scotland's greatest. Sadly Roy's death in 1990 brought it to a close. Lots of cds, dvds and merchandise from website.
You are bloody so lucky to have seen them live, had the opportunity to see them live back in the day with my parents, due to being to hung up on street cred I refused to go, we all make mistakes along the way lol 😝
Learnt A Shiteload of these Boys in early seventies from Dads 8track in The west Highlands. Late seventies. I've left home to work on a boat at sixteen with My first ever serious Girlfriend 😉! Best of Times. But I still didn't remember this? Yet I was word perfect? Understanding was no surprise. But why haven't I seen this before?
I am getting older but the corries although they are now halved their music is still the best in the world. I am lucky, as kin men of the two I can understand the words they say. But you do not need to know the words you can enjoy the music and atmosphere that is dead brilliant. Here everyone can join the duo and have a great night
You can tell they liked the original song based on how good this parody is and how much fun they're having. I don't get all the cultural references. But I still find it funny.
What always gets me is the audience, they were so full of hope for independence all those years ago, I always shed a tear for them watching this 😢 Saor Alba 🏴
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Thank you for posting this! I The version was on here before but someone removed it. I have the DVD but don't know how to upload from a DVD. The song was written by Bill Hill.
I lived in Lossiemouth and watched these two perform this at Elgin Town Hall around about 1969. They were totally brilliant then, and 45+ years later, they still are! I have written my own words to this classic tune about drunken bus-drivers in Bristol totally inspired by this song. Goodness, they were good beyond words.
I'm neither 50, nor scottish, nor a native english speaker nor do I know the original song or get half the jokes, but I can just about grasp the humor and the atmosphere is fun, so that's fine by me
I remember them.no one can touch them. I went to there last concert in Glasgow. And I take exception to the over fifty remark. I’m only a youngster at a trim 47, which is also my waist size.
The lyrics are so funny And contrast with the accompaniment! You have to pay attention, and to know why it works so wonderfully well as satire. Cracks me up every time. Who wrote the lyrics?
I remember the first time iI heard this. On my way for a Scottish holiday via Larne Stranraer and after a break while in Stranraer I had purchased one of the Corrie live in concert cassette tapes and put it in the player as I drove toward Cairnryan having really only heard them doing general folk tunes form at least their days as the Corrie Folk trio and Paddy Bell. I was unprepared for this and laughed so hard I nearly drove the car of the road
My grandad used to sing this when I was very young (around 6) I’m only 17 now but I feel like I’m the only young person who knows this song.. everyone I know below 30 doesn’t really know these guys.
I worked in a print works years ago and one of the guys was nicknamed Nuggets. Someone asked how did he got that name and Geordie McNeil said 'He was a gambler on the Ballachulish ferry!'' Great patter in factories years ago
Yes very good by the Corries when I saw them perform it BUT the BEST version is by the original composer Bill Hill and second? By a wee trio called 'A man called Horace' who I saw perform it at a gig in Peterhead circa 1986
Hogmanay isn’t Hogmanay without the Corries!! Many a party at my mum and dads then with all the family welcoming in the new year with the corries on 👌🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
I was listening to a song by Johnny Cash ("Ghost Riders in the Sky") and I remembered the tune from somewhere. Without any distractions, the tune led me to remember this song from the Corries! I like this version better!
" The Portree Kid" lyrics. Music: "Ghost Riders in the Sky". The first is an Irish play on the latter. Reminds me what Weird Al Yankovic did to "Like a Virgin" (in his "Like a Surgeon") or "Gangster Paradise"("Amish Paradise").
I'd never heard of them until 2015 when I started watching UA-cam. The first time I saw them it was Roy live singing The Bricklayers Song. That's still my favorite but I love all the stuff they did.
Here am I in 2024, loving this and greetin!
Who’s all still listening to this classic in lockdown 2020 🎶🙌❤️
His side was a ora man and o that he mean he was called the midnight cowboy he came fae Aberdeen
Stephen Mcgill He had twenty seven notches on his cromack so they say
And he killed a million Indians way up in Stornoway 🎶🙌 superb 👏
Me!! 😎👍🏴
Best music ever
I am.
It’s magic
Still listening in 2021 still brilliant two patriots with a true passion for Scottish music 👍💙💙🏴🏴
still listening in 2022
The incomparable ❤
Massive tune
Massive love
Massive musically
Massive legends
Absolutely brilliant. The Corries took me through life form the age of 15 when I joined my regiment at age 15 in !969. Till 1975 when I left and moved to Canada.
The corries were and still are Scotlands very best folk group.Would have liked to have seen a folk show on the telly with the Corries Hamich imlach ally mcbain etc.Folk music is excellent humour wise and story telling and history wise.The mainstream people on radio and the telly dont give this style of music the place it deserves.
Some of my best concerts and wolftones memories of all the best time to be there and my older cousin Jay always had to look after me.after one in Edinburgh me and my pal tried to steal a train.absolutely magic.jay I love you jip
Unforgettable
Makes me think of every funeral, wedding and new year spent with my family up in Wick. Great memories.
the lyrics ar exquisite Scotland
Love the wee jibes at the wee fella frae Macmerry. just doon the road from us in Edin, but they're aw' big Ferm lads doon there!
Very diverse talents. Fine singers, harmonies and musicians. Great storytellers and humour. Connection with audiences. They were Scotland's greatest. Sadly Roy's death in 1990 brought it to a close. Lots of cds, dvds and merchandise from website.
I've got one of their song book n seen them live loads of times I'm only 46 lol x
You are bloody so lucky to have seen them live, had the opportunity to see them live back in the day with my parents, due to being to hung up on street cred I refused to go, we all make mistakes along the way lol 😝
@@collmac1974 😊
4:44
So insanely hilarious. I love it.
Ha, these were the day's 😅 life was great back then, where did it go.
Listening tonight 9/10/22 their music will last for years,Simply Scotlands Best.
Learnt A Shiteload of these Boys in early seventies from Dads 8track in The west Highlands.
Late seventies. I've left home to work on a boat at sixteen with My first ever serious Girlfriend 😉!
Best of Times. But I still didn't remember this?
Yet I was word perfect?
Understanding was no surprise.
But why haven't I seen this before?
Love these guys!
Baith satire and sentiment
I am getting older but the corries although they are now halved their music is still the best in the world. I am lucky, as kin men of the two I can understand the words they say. But you do not need to know the words you can enjoy the music and atmosphere that is dead brilliant. Here everyone can join the duo and have a great night
All that brilliance and the composer of the song didn’t get a mention. Never mind, I got the royalties
Outstanding
Absolutely hilarious! Loved it!
It's absolutely brilliant music 🎶
You can tell they liked the original song based on how good this parody is and how much fun they're having.
I don't get all the cultural references. But I still find it funny.
What always gets me is the audience, they were so full of hope for independence all those years ago, I always shed a tear for them watching this 😢 Saor Alba 🏴
Time yit 😊
We need songs like this just now! Always makes me laugh!xx
The Corries-The Portree Kid-live-Lyrics
This Should Make You Laugh,
Independence For Scotland
Live 21st Anniversary Concert-Video
One Of Scotland's Old and Best Folk Groups
#corries #indyref #voteyes
Definetly₩!
Thanks for the videos they are ace thanks!
Thank you for posting this! I The version was on here before but someone removed it. I have the DVD but don't know how to upload from a DVD.
The song was written by Bill Hill.
I lived in Lossiemouth and watched these two perform this at Elgin Town Hall around about 1969. They were totally brilliant then, and 45+ years later, they still are!
I have written my own words to this classic tune about drunken bus-drivers in Bristol totally inspired by this song.
Goodness, they were good beyond words.
Would love to see /hear them mate
Aye, ye cannae go teasin' folk like that - please supply a link!
There is a very good reason lots of people restart this at 3:26 ... Hilarious, Ronnie!
Seriously? 3 folk disliked this? Wonderful fun from a much loved duo. Thank you so much for posting. It gave me a much appreciated lift.
Up to 18 now. Maybe they were tone deaf.
@@seannot-telling9806 maybe their eyes and ears are filled with bee wax....
@@foggydew3614 Could be that the heads are just full of mush.
@@seannot-telling9806 yeah or their brains just exploded
Maybe it was the Indians in Stornoway who were offended?
I love Ghost Riders in the Sky and I love this song too.
I'm an Aiberdonian living in Sydney, but love all Scot's songs and the Corries take me back. Love it.
This is a really clever parody but you need to be over 50 and Scottish to 'get' it fully. Not many of us then!
I been listening tae this since I was a kid, you don't have to be any age tae enjoy or "get" the Corries bud ;)
I'm neither 50, nor scottish, nor a native english speaker nor do I know the original song or get half the jokes, but I can just about grasp the humor and the atmosphere is fun, so that's fine by me
I remember them.no one can touch them. I went to there last concert in Glasgow. And I take exception to the over fifty remark. I’m only a youngster at a trim 47, which is also my waist size.
Sad that so many people are denied the ability to get the wonderful humour in this. It really is hilarious.
Timeless!
So much better than the original "Ghost Riders in the Sky" ...I love the Corries!
Wolf-Uwe Ostermann another good one is Sunday driver or bricklayers song
Brilliant...much better than the original.
Interestingly I heard Portree Kid first in the early 90's and loved it but only heard of Ghost Riders in the Sky in 2008 😂
The 'original' Portree Kid was written by the talented Bill Hill of Hawick & Edinburgh
Proud to be a teuchter lol
The lyrics are so funny And contrast with the accompaniment! You have to pay attention, and to know why it works so wonderfully well as satire. Cracks me up every time. Who wrote the lyrics?
Fit a guid crack min! cheers
Fit like loon you take care wee your job
I remember the first time iI heard this. On my way for a Scottish holiday via Larne Stranraer and after a break while in Stranraer I had purchased one of the Corrie live in concert cassette tapes and put it in the player as I drove toward Cairnryan having really only heard them doing general folk tunes form at least their days as the Corrie Folk trio and Paddy Bell. I was unprepared for this and laughed so hard I nearly drove the car of the road
Rip Roy one of the best composer of all time.
Perfect for St. Andrew's Day! Doon by the Rio Tweed... Hysterical!
He was a river gambler on the Ballachulish Ferry!
Brilliant - saw them at Newcastle City Hall back in the 1980's - good craic, great songs, well missed.
hadn't seen this version....brilliant. ..thank you.
My grandad used to sing this when I was very young (around 6) I’m only 17 now but I feel like I’m the only young person who knows this song.. everyone I know below 30 doesn’t really know these guys.
I'm with you there son my auld man sang me these as a wee bairn. Read me burns had a fair up bringin.
Absolutely perfect!!! Thank you for sharing this gem.
The Corries were an institution, but credit here to Bill Hill, who wrote this ditty.
I worked in a print works years ago and one of the guys was nicknamed Nuggets. Someone asked how did he got that name and Geordie McNeil said 'He was a gambler on the Ballachulish ferry!'' Great patter in factories years ago
Ontario, Canada listening to all this GREAT music during lockdown. Loving this!
I've loved these guys for ever RIP Roy
This is is one that I wrote
Yes very good by the Corries when I saw them perform it BUT the BEST version is by the original composer Bill Hill and second? By a wee trio called 'A man called Horace' who I saw perform it at a gig in Peterhead circa 1986
❤❤❤🏴🏴🏴❤❤❤ Aat's a classic, nae doot! Best version o the ghaist riders ever!!! 🤠😉
My dad is a corries fan....think Ive heard every song going 🤦🏻♂️ Died on my 12th birthday
hadn't seen this version....brilliant. ..thank you.
Hogmanay isn’t Hogmanay without the Corries!! Many a party at my mum and dads then with all the family welcoming in the new year with the corries on 👌🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Love it 🏴💙
brilliant
just love them...pissed my self at this one,,,again..
Love it! My paternal grandfather was a 'teuchter frae Skye'.
I love the Corries since I was 16 many years ago 💚💟💜
Ronnie cracks me up at 3.35
Me! 👍🏴😁
I was listening to a song by Johnny Cash ("Ghost Riders in the Sky") and I remembered the tune from somewhere. Without any distractions, the tune led me to remember this song from the Corries! I like this version better!
Definitely ghost riders..
" The Portree Kid" lyrics. Music: "Ghost Riders in the Sky". The first is an Irish play on the latter. Reminds me what Weird Al Yankovic did to "Like a Virgin" (in his "Like a Surgeon") or "Gangster Paradise"("Amish Paradise").
@@virginiaconnor8350 Irish?
An audience listen to that with straight faces
If anyone can they've either got no soul, or a sense of humour 😁.
Brilliant stuff....I love the Corries Alba go bragh
brilliant
To the tune of "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
2023 and still can’t get enough of this song
Need this humour in 2021
Before I liked the song the number of Likes read 1701 which happens to be part of the Registry of the "USS ENTERPRISE NCC 1701" from Star Trek
Thank you and subscribed.
Heard this song for the first time while on a bus trip comin' into Portree (( great trip, great tour, impressive song =) ))
Just great!
Going to Glencoe on yer bike. From south of there. The dog's
hilarious!
Enjoyed their concerts in Aberdeen in the 70s. Great stuff.
On 3:32 Ronnie gives a great actor recital!!!!
Greetings fromHellas!
Too funny
🏴
i think the lyrics aren't quite accurate with "slàinte mhòr"... he says "slàinte mhath" right?
"slàinte mhath" is the usual form in Scotland.
There's a bus coming in 💀💀💀💀
Portree Kid written by Bill Hill
My favourite Corrie's song!
It's actually Bill Hill's song!
Was just about to say Bill Hill
I'd never heard of them until 2015 when I started watching UA-cam. The first time I saw them it was Roy live singing The Bricklayers Song. That's still my favorite but I love all the stuff they did.
Like wee Janis and the highwaymen
so scary... lol
Dave Albiston scary? I don’t see what you mean..
Just class
Quality
tapadh leat, na coireachan
What song is this a parody of?
'Ghost riders' by Johnny Cash
I think it was Stan Jones in 1948 and first popularized by Burl Ives.
Where can I find the chords
Look up the chords to "Ghost Riders in the Sky."
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