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Thread #31848   Message #415325
Posted By: katlaughing
11-Mar-01 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sawney Bean - cannibalistic family
Subject: Swaney Bean - cannabilstic family
Wow, just heard this gruesome, but very tuneful song on Hober Radio. The group was the Big Blow and the Bushwackers and I am sure I heard a digeridoo.

Song was about meeting a man named McTeague, then (I think) him telling about an "incestous in-bred family" in 14th centruy Scotland who preyed on travellers and ate them, after plying them with shelter and food! It later went on to say King James then sent 400 men who did the family in...anybody know this one?