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Thread #73955   Message #1288426
Posted By: Roberto
04-Oct-04 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bonny George Campbell (Brian Peters)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: brian peters' bonny george campbell
With the help of Brian Peters, whom I thank very much, the lines I couldn't get in the fourth stanza in his recording of Bonny George Campbell are: "blood from the open wound flowed to the ground". I remind that an explanatory stanza accusing the MacDonalds is also in Duncan Williamson's recording of the ballad ("For a band of MacDonald's he met on his way / For they took him and they hung him and they strang him to a tree / So hame came his good horse but never came he"). Also in this case, the stanza seems to have been added later. R