"We'll try the old way that laddies use on the village green.

Splendid laddies they were, who looked as if they would give a great account of themselves.

Money was needed for the laddies who were goingneeded for all sorts of things.

The bonnie laddies who would be living now, instead of lying in an unmarked grave in France or Flanders!

Big, braw laddies they wereall in their kilts.

The laddies who went because of me called me their godfather, many of them!

My son was gonehe would never come back with the laddies who had fought and won!

They rose to me again, and cheered and cheered, after I had finished singing "The Laddies Who Fought and Won."

And always and everywhere there were the hospitals, full of the laddies who had been brought home from France.

Ah, but they were pitiful, those laddies who had fought, and won, and been brought back to be nursed back to the life they had been so bravely willing to lay down for their country!

How could a man get such a plea as that and not want to do what those laddies asked?

I wanted to sing for the laddies who were bearing the brunt of the big job over therewhile they were bearing it.

Ah, weel, there are sad thoughts that come to me, as well as proud and happy ones, when I think of the bonnie kilted laddies who fought and died so nobly out there against the Hun!

They were my own laddies, those, and it was with them and amang them that my boy went to his death.

For I knew that if they sent me to the Hieland Brigade they would be sending me to the front of the front linefor that was where I would have to go seeking the Hieland laddies!

He had worked hard for them, and gainedand well earnedmuch fame by the way he struggled with the matter of getting the right sort of pensions for the laddies who were offering their lives.

Ah, the braw laddies!

But some folk went to him and asked him would he no do his bit to cheer up the puir laddies in a hospital?

They know, do the laddies in the ranks, that their officers will never ask them to go anywhere or do anything they would shirk themselvesand that makes for a spirit that you could not esteem too highly.

They had discipline, those laddies, but it was not the old, stiff discipline of the old army.

If I could have seen our laddies there below, why, the Huns could have seen them too.

But the laddies of my battery, though they were shooting now at Germans they could not see, had had many a close up view of Fritz in the past, and expected many another in the future.

It is a great sight to watch it in the making; it helps you to understand the victories our laddies have won.

I love all the soldiers of the Empire, but it is natural, is it no, that my warmest feeling should be for the laddies who wear the kilt.

"Well, laddies, you're above me now.