Did he fire up “the pipes” to play a couple choruses of Danny Boy for Camilla’s entertainment.
No, but he read Joe the following from Tam O’ Shanter.
Now Tam, O Tam! had these been young girls,
All plump and strapping in their teens!
Their underskirts, instead of greasy flannel,
Been snow-white seventeen hundred linen! -
The trousers of mine, my only pair,
That once were plush, of good blue hair,
I would have given them off my buttocks
For one blink of those pretty girls !