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Thread #158199 Message #3739213
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
23-Sep-15 - 01:46 AM
Thread Name: what do the words mean?Child Ballad 281(The Creel)
Subject: RE: what do the words mean?Child Ballad 281(The Creel)
Well, there's a song that goes
O, the broom, the bonnie, bonnie broom - the broom of the Cowden Knowes....
Perhaps somebody heard 'broom' in a floating verse, didn't know that broom is a plant, and decided it must have been 'blue.'