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Thread #71835   Message #1726359
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Campin
24-Apr-06 - 06:00 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: new Scottish emigrant songs
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Scottish Emigrant Lyrics
Well, I think those songs are pig-ignorant, cliched, xenophobic and near-as-dammit-fascist crap, the sort of garbage you might expect from somebody who got their entire knowledge of history from Mel Gibson movies.

Maybe the KKK songbook might have an appropriate tune somewhere, but do us a favour and don't degrade the musical tradition of Scotland by using one of ours.

I mean, we have songwriters like Brian McNeill, Karine Polwart, Michael Marra, Alistair Hulett... and you throw *that* stuff at us?