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Thread #139204   Message #3190566
Posted By: Jack Campin
19-Jul-11 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Purple Heather Skarpi has a question
Subject: RE: Origins: Purple Heather Skarpi has a question
Look up threads on "Wild Mountain Thyme" and "Braes of Balquhidder".

It's a Scottish song about 250 years old. An Irish revival singer of the Fifties said he'd written it and did very well out of extorting the royalties.

It has no particular associations with weddings or funerals in Scotland. It's not as popular as it used to be.