Donald Where's Your Troosers?

"Donald Where's Your Troosers?"
Cover of the 2011 Best Of album which included the song
Single by Andy Stewart
from the album A Scottish Soldier
Released	1960, 1989
Format	7" single
Genre	Comic song, Music of Scotland
Length	3:17
Label	EMI Top Rank
Producer(s)	Robert Wilson

"Donald Where's Your Troosers?" is a comic song about a Scotsman who wears a kilt rather than trousers. It was written by Andy Stewart with music by Neil Grant. When performed by Andy Stewart and the White Heather Group, it was a hit in 1960, reaching #37 in the UK charts and #1 in Canada. When re-released in 1989 it became an even bigger hit, reaching #4 in UK

Stewart wrote the song in 10 minutes while he sat, trouserless, in the lavatory of a recording studio.^[1] The song tells of a rustic Scotsman who wears the kilt in defiance of the shock this causes to polite society such as well-spoken ladies on the London Underground. The music supports the theme in its chord progression, which shifts from the double tonic of Scottish music to a V-i cadence more typical of highbrow music. As performed by Andy Stewart, a verse is also performed in the style of Elvis Presley to provide yet another amusing clash of cultures.^[2]

The song was ranked 17th in a poll of the UK's favourite comic songs in 2009.^[3]

In the media

• "Donald Where's Your Troosers" was featured in the second season episode, "Adam Raised a Cain", of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
• One common headline about the furor over allegations of Donald Duck being banned in Finland for not wearing pants was "Donald, Where Are Your Trousers?"^[4]

External links

• "Donald, where's your troosers?", version by The Irish Rovers
• "Pirate Song", a mixture with the "Drunken Sailor" by Pirate Shantyman and his Bonnie Lass

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