Old Bellshill

Here's a health tae auld Bellshill
I've lived here a' ma days
But noo they're changin' everything
In a hundred different ways
The Tipper Davie's history noo
The Old Drum, it's the same
They're calling Tesco progress
But who'll say they're tae blame?

The toon's been here 200 years
The weavers were the first
Then coal and steel and ironworks
Until the bubble burst
The silicon revolution
That just seemed tae pass us by
The only chips we ever had
Were aye in the deep fry

It's no' the toon that I once knew
The library, my delight,
Has been replaced by a glasshoose
Full o' DVDs and shite
They've even had the neck
Tae go and shut aff Bellshill Cross
The tail's waggin' the dug
An' it's everybody's loss.