X: 1
T: the Bonny Bonny Broome
T: the Broom of the Cowdenknows
M: C|
L: 1/8
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.
K: G
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