The night we came to Wigtown (Scotland's famous Book Town)

A song inspired by Shaun Bythell's book THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER recounting the various anecdotes and daily chores of running a second hand bookshop.
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We feature on June 8th as this was the day we first arrived in Wigtown and stayed with Shaun in his shop after a gig. The song tells you a little more detail on the night than you would find in the book.
Available from your nearest independent bookshop.
ISBN-139781781258620
Profile Books
The song was commissioned by The Wigtown Book Festival, which runs every year for ten days in Scotland's Book Town for the last week of September and is well worth going to. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
LYRICS:
The night we came to Wigtown
Scotland’s (famous) Book Town
Looking for a concert
Well, how else would we find it
We played in the Bookshop
And never wanted to stop
Then came down the teas
And we sold a bunch of CDs
The night we came to Wigtown
Scotland’s (famous) Book Town
Everybody’s in town
Adrian’s up from London
Bottles started opening
Birthday’s we were toasting
A good excuse as any to celebrate....
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the night we came to Wigtown
Scotland’s (famous) Book Town
Candles lit for supper
So we headed up the
Stairs to Shaun’s kitchen
Table, we were eating
Out comes the banjo
And H.A. Manhood
Red wine it was flowing
Drinking to the morning
Singing silly songs,
And dancing in our long-johns
Oooh, weee ohhh It feels like home
We don’t want to go
The night we came to Wigtown
Scotland’s (famous) Book Town
While Shaun was snoring
We started exploring
Looking through the books,
HORNEY SHAUN’S SHELF OF PORN, he
Say’s it’s for his punters, but you
Can’t help but wonders
Discovering the train-sets
Underneath the carpets
Harmonies and cartwheels
To beds in pulpits
Stumberling and giggling
Sleeping Shaun is dribbling
Everyone was very wasted
Oooh, weee ohhh......
It was a very fun day
But not wise for a Sunday
We slept in for two days
While Shaun got up on Monday
He opened up the shop
And he wrote in his diary
Some things he forgot
They just slipped out his Memory
Then his book got bought
So now he’s an author
But our entry is too short
And we think we ought to
Explain to everyone
What really went on
While Shaun was asleep, snoring....
he night we came to Wigtown,
Scotland’s famous book town
Now we’ve moved to Wigtown
So we can expose him

[@theangrymob8231]

This is the most nostalgic, beautiful thing I've ever heard. Now I want to run a bookshop!

[@TheBookshopBand]

he he, it was fun to do.

[@philspianopieces8860]

LOVE IT!!!

[@baldbookgeek]

I watched you guys at the derby book festival love this song

[@TheBookshopBand]

That was a fun fest. Bring on 2021 and we'l be back :)

[@CarolSteinfeld]

Lovely and a half. But let some of those older folks sit down!

[@TheBookshopBand]

They were only passing through, onto the next act on the bookshop tour :)