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Thread #69809 Message #1210496
Posted By: GUEST
19-Jun-04 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: A' Jock Tamsons Bairns: IS this a song?
Subject: RE: A' Jock Tamsons Bairns: IS this a song?
Phrase originates in edinburgh scotland fron late 1800's. Reverend John Thomson (Jock Tamsons) of Duddingston Kirk called his congregation his bairn's (children) - means that we are all children of god