by Archie Hind
* Comminute, verb meaning, to pulverise – reduce to small particles.
‘The Dear Green Place’
In 1971, Archie Hind’s review Through with a Flourish was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival and contained the following song written in collaboration with Peter Kelly.
Tenements of black and grey
Fill the city where I stay
Still you’ll always hear me say
‘Glasgow, the dear green place’.
In the streets the children play
Games of lands so far away
For they know they’ll leave one day
Glasgow, the dear green place.
The people came down from the north
From Ireland’s shores they came across
And settled by the riverside.
And in their tongue they chose a name
The city changed but just the same
Gleschu is the name that stays
Glesca, that’s the dear green place.
People passing by this way
Look around then go away
Never knowing why I say
Glasgow, the dear green place.