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bothy ballad

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bothy ballad
n
Scot a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
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Bothy" is a Scottish word for a humble cottage, and bothy ballads told country stories, usually of a bawdy nature.
Human passion shines through music; For more than 40 years, the Bothy ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Alex Salmond, the SNP leader and local MP, admitted the town preferred bothy ballads to dying swans.
DYING SWAN; Vienna ballet is tu-tu highbrow for Alex's town by Gall, Charlie / Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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