Iain Mackintosh 20 July 1932 - 28 Aug 2006,Glasgow,
Was a Scottish singer and songwriter. His father was from the Outer Hebrides, a watchmaker and goldsmith who owned a pawnshop in Glasgow, his mother came from Northern Ireland. At the age of seven he started learning the Highland pipes and played in a pipe band in his youth. His mother died when he was twelve, and he and his three sisters were brought up by his grandmother. After grammar school
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Verse 1: GD/F#Em They’re playing our song, Margarita. CD Dance it this last time with me. GD/F#Em It won’t be long, Margarita – CD soon I’ll be overseas. GGaug Let me know that you’ll care CCm when I’ve gone over there. GD/F# They’re playing our song, Margarita. CG Dance it this last time with me.
Verse 2 (same): Kiss me again, Margarita. Give me a memory of you. They say in France, Margarita, one more push, we’ll be through. Yes, I’ll write, but where from? All they’ll say will be “The Somme.” Kiss me again, Margarita. Give me a memory of you.
Chorus: EmC It’s a new world, Margarita, DG that we’ll build when it’s through. EmC In our new world, Margarita, A7D we’ll be wed, me and you.
Verse 3:
My old great aunt Margarita (she’d been blind thirty years) would tell us of young Margarita, of her man and her tears. She would say, “He was tall, that’s his picture on the wall.” My old great aunt Margarita, she’d been blind thirty years,
verse 4:
and she would ask, “Is he smiling?” I would stare at the frame, but the sun was there shining through her window again. Where the sun always shone he had faded and gone. When she would ask, “Is he smiling?” I would say, “He’s the same”
Chorus: EmC It’s a new world, Margarita, DG that we’ll build when it’s through. EmC In our new world, Margarita, A7D we’ll be wed, me and you.