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Thread #2822   Message #12474
Posted By: Walt Kailey
18-Sep-97 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: Rare Scottish Folk Music
Subject: Rare Scottish Folk Music
I am looking for a rare recording from the sixties. It is a Scottish artist singing a song that goes

Ah mon ha'e a wife, Whatsoe'er she be, An' she be a woman, There's enugh for me!

Chorus: By brooms beezums wore well, By the new fine heather, Ringers(?) better never grew!

etc. Artists name is Mac-something. That's all I know. Anyone out there have any info. By the way, what are Ringers(?)? I know that a beezum is a broom made by tying together the brances of bushes (preferably heather) on the end of a stick. And, by the way, I live in Broomfield, Colorado, where a lovely purple wild flower blooms in the late summer. I don't know if it's actually heather, but I like to think of it as such.