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fishing towns by the Moray Firth and the North Sea , with their folk traditions and work songs , for which Burns always ... a song with a Perthshire setting like ' Blythe Was She ' ; a song from Buckie , a bustling fishing town on the ...
fishing towns by the Moray Firth and the North Sea , with their folk traditions and work songs , for which Burns always ... a song with a Perthshire setting like ' Blythe Was She ' ; a song from Buckie , a bustling fishing town on the ...
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A proof of each of the Songs that I compose or amend , I shall receive as a favour . ... but I now resolve to include every Scotch air and song worth singing , leaving none behind but mere gleanings ' , he wrote in January , 1793 .
A proof of each of the Songs that I compose or amend , I shall receive as a favour . ... but I now resolve to include every Scotch air and song worth singing , leaving none behind but mere gleanings ' , he wrote in January , 1793 .
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He knew he was dying – he died nine days later - yet he was still discussing songs and projecting more work on them . ... the field of song writing , an energy unparalleled in degree or quality in either English or Scottish literature .
He knew he was dying – he died nine days later - yet he was still discussing songs and projecting more work on them . ... the field of song writing , an energy unparalleled in degree or quality in either English or Scottish literature .
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