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Thread #18830   Message #166654
Posted By: GUEST,Okiemockbird
22-Jan-00 - 10:21 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Buy Broom Buzzems / Buy Broom Besoms
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Buy Broom Buzzems
Alan, thanks for setting that up.

I suspect the word is a dialectical variant pronunciation of "besoms", but the source (Stokoe's smallpipe tune book of 1882) clearly has "buzzems", both in the table of contents and on the page where the melody is printed.

T.