the Broom of the Cowdenknows
Also known as:- the Bonny Bonny Broome
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History
for turnip farming in the 19th century.
flowers, once grew plentifully of its hillsides but was stripped away
border. The broom, a shrub which blooms with spikes of small golden
of the river Leander, 32 miles SE of Edinburgh, close to the English
Cowdenknows was a Scottish estate and barony on the east bank
complaining shews what harme she got milking her Daddies ewes.
entitled "The lovely northern lasse", who in the ditty here
The tune "The Broom of Cowdenknows" was listed in 1632 with a ballad
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