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Songs I – P

I can’t change it

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I must away, love.

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I’ll sit on my creepie

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It was in the month of January

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Jaanie Nittle

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Jock Tamson’s Tripe

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Kevin Barry

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Kitty from the coast of Spain

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Lad that wears the plaidie, The

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Lasses’ Lament, The

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Lilli baa lillie

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Little Shirt my Mother Made For Me, The

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Logie o’ Buchan

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Loss of the Vestris, The

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Lovely Nancy

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MacCarfrae

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MacDonald of Glencoe

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Mantle of Green, The

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Marigold, The

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Me mither sent me to the well

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Middlesex Flora, The

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My friend the sea

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My gruel, my gruel

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Nicky Tams

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Oh my comrades you must know

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Oh the laddie leuchd

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Paddy’s Leather Breeches

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Peggy Gordon

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Piddle and Craigie

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Pulling hard against the stream

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  • Anderson, Iris
  • Anderson, Joey
  • Anderson, Mary
  • Arthur, Davy and Netta
  • Hughson, John
  • Hutchison, Gilbert
  • Hutchison, Jeannie
  • Hutchison, Robert
  • Hutchison, Robina
  • Hutchison, William
  • Hutchison, William (a’ Tip)
  • Irvine, Jean
  • Jamieson, Thelma
  • McLeod, Rea
  • Moar, Andrew
  • Poleson, Andrew
  • Poleson, Anne
  • Poleson, Betty
  • Rognaldson, Thora
  • Sandison, Harriet
  • Shearer, Janet
  • Stewart, Arthur
  • Stewart, Elsa
  • Stewart, Robert
  • Sutherland, Maisie
  • Williamson, Jeanette
  • Williamson, Maggie
  • Williamson, Willie

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