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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Robin	Scots Laredo (9)	Scots Laredo	15 Feb 03
This is a bit of a flyer ... A quatrain came up on scots-lang: "As I gaed in tae Turra market, Turra market for tae fee; I met in wi the wealthy fairmer Barnyards o Delgaty." It struck me that this is bloody close to The Streets of Laredo, both in rhythm and tune. Anyone got any input on this? My best-guess is that it's a post-Laredo rewrite -- the locution "for tae fee" doesn't ring right to my ear, and I was around the hiring fairs in Moffat in the sixties. Robin

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