Pam and Sandy Fleming told this story to Robin at a concert one night. The drayman was Pam's grandfather. She did not tell Robin her grandfather's name but when he heard the story it sounded like perfect material for a song and David seemed the obvious name. When Pam saw the lyrics she said 'How did you know my grandfather was called David?'

This song lasts just under 4 minutes on the CD but here it begins to fade out after 3 minutes. It is stored in mp3 format which will download and play on most computers. The size of the file is nearly 4Mb. The download time may be quite long (many minutes) over a slow connection and most computers won't begin to play the song until it has downloaded completely. Click here to begin the download.

If you don't want to wait the full download time we also offer a 'thumbnail' of just the first verse and chorus. That should reduce the download time by about two thirds.

© Robin Laing

Robin Laing is a singer/songwriter living in Crossford. He has written many fine songs and has several CDs to his credit. On this song he is assisted by David Scott (keyboards, guitar and backing vocals), Wendy Weatherby ('cello) and Derek Star (percussion). You can find out more at Robin's website www.robinlaing.com.

The New Makars Trust is a charity that aims to promote songwriting about life in Scottish communities. It is funded by the Scottish Arts Council and South Lanarkshire Council. Billy Stewart is the director of the project, which comes under the name of 'Songlines'. The project has involved many component parts working with established and local songwriters to work with children and older people and other groups in various South Lanarkshire communities.

The Songlines project wanted to explore the song heritage of Clydesdale horses and has just recently produced a CD, on the Greentrax record label, called "GENTLE GIANTS A Celebration of the Clydesdale Horse in Song". It is a compilation of 17 songs about Clydesdale horses, accompanied by a beautiful 24-page booklet of information about the songs and about Clydesdale horses with lots of pictures. These songs tell the story of the Clydesdale horse and remind us of their importance at a time when the horse itself is enjoying something of a revival, not just in the area of its origins but throughout the world.

The CD was researched and compiled by Robin, who also wrote two of the songs. Nine of the songs were specially commissioned for the project and other local songwriters (Tom Clelland, Billy Stewart, Chris Rogers, John Malcolm and Dave Gibb) composed most of these.