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Thread #3165   Message #15326
Posted By: John Nolan
27-Oct-97 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Ball of Kerriemuir / ...Ballynore
Subject: RE: Looking for a Scottish song
Some verses of The Ball of Kirriemuir arguably have minor literary merit, if you subscribe to the Merry Muses of Caledonia school of thought. Burns reputedly contributed the closing verse:
Big Rab the fairmer cursed and swore,
And then he roared and grat,
A forty-acre field o'corn
Was nearly f---éd flat.
(Rye humor, perhaps?)