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broome, broome, The bonny bonny Broome
Found in broome_broome_The_bonny_bonny_Broome_1.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X:74 T:broome, broome, The bonny bonny Broome T:Broome T:The bonny bonny Broome T:The Broom of the Cowdenknows H:The tune "The Broom of Cowdenknows" was listed in 1632 with a ballad H:entitled "The lovely northern lasse", who in the ditty here H:"complaining shews what harme she got milking her Daddies ewes." H:Cowdenknows was a Scottish estate and barony on the east bank H:of the river Leander, 32 miles SE of Edinburgh, close to the English H:border. The broom, a shrub which blooms with spikes of small golden H:flowers, once grew plentifully of its hillsides but was stripped away H:for turnip farming in the 19th century. M:C| L:1/8 Q:200 K:G d3e d3e | dcBA G4 | g2ga bagf | e6f2 |\ g3a b2ab | g2GA B2AG | A2A2 e3c | A8 |]
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