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User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
John Nolan | Origins: I'll tak ye tae Glenisla/Busk Busk Bonnie (6) | RE: Lyr Req: I'll tak ye tae Glenisla | 15 Oct 00 |
With deference to Belle Stewart, it makes more sense to sing the 'soldiers' verse before the 'shepherds' verse, as, during the Clearances, highlanders were ethnically cleansed at sword and gun point, a little before the arrival of the land-thieves' cash crop, sheep. |