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Thread #711   Message #2459
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22-Feb-97 - 02:49 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Parcel of Rogues (Burns)
Subject: RE: Burns' Parcel of Rogues
Yes Ewen MacColl's _Folk Songs And Ballads Of Scotland_ is still in print from Oak Publications. I bought it this summer and was very pleased.

Great source for Trad stuff with music and hist notes.

Such A Parcel of Rogues In a Nation: "The charge of corruption which is made here against the majority of the Scottish parliament who "treasonably sold us for English gold" is repeated again and again in Jacobite songs. Those who are familiar with the records of men like Archibald, Duke of Argyle, John, Earl of Stair, Lord Anondale, Lord Rothes, Traitor M'Kertney, Honest Kersland and other members of the Unionist faction, will know that the charge was not without foundation."

When the names matter, and sometimes they do, its good to be able to get them right!