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Thread #109913 Message #2301369
Posted By: Jim McLean
30-Mar-08 - 04:30 PM
Thread Name: Wild Mountain Thyme - Why doesn't it rhyme
Subject: RE: Wild Mountain Thyme - Why doesn't it rhy
Tannahill wrote 'Where the deer and the rae ... to rhyme with
'Sport the lang simmer day' i.e. not 'roe' and he called it The Braes o' Balquhither.