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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 17 October 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span id="_user_t.mcrae@uq.net.au" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Tom Mc Rae</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">
t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.10.16 (06) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div>On 17/10/2007, at 9:46 AM,<span> R. F. Hahn <</span><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span> > wrote:</span></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Subject: Traditions<br></span></blockquote><span class="q"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Where
are the paranormal parables, the spine-chilling stories about specters
and the poems about eerie encounters with the unknown? <br><br>Let's scare the children at least! They love to be scared.<br></span></blockquote><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">OK here's my contribution which I heard on BBC Scotland many years ago at Halloween.
</div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">To be recited in a sonorous voice...</div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">THE LONELY WEAVER</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' in cam a pair o' braid braid feet an' stood them at the fire nairby</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' in cam a pair o' braid braid legs an' set them oan thae feet nairby
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' in cam a muckle braid braid boadee an' stuck itsel' oan the laigs nairby
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' in cam a pair o'lang lang airms an' set thersels oant the laigs nairby
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' in crawlt a pair o' hairy hauns an' jined thersels tae the airms nairby
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' e're she sat, an e're she wove an e're she wished fur company</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">An' in rollit a muckle bluidy heid an sat itsel' oan that boady nairby
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">She sed 'Hey Bogle whae are yew ?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Whoat cam Ye her the nicht tae dew ?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
The Bogle groant, 'Ah've cum fur YEWWWWW!!!!!'</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Of course at YEWWW you grab the victim with both hands.
</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hey I must do that to local kids on night of 31st.</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br></div><div></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;">
<font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Regards</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;">
<font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Tom Mc Rae</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;">
<font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Brisbane Australia</font></p>
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Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">
Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">
Robert Burns</font></p> <br>
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