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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.
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