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Broadford Bazaar [*]
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Jethro Tull
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Dirty white caravans down our road, sailing.
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Vivas, cortinas, weaving in their wake.
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With hot, red-faced drivers, horns flattened, fists whaling,
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Putting trust in blind corners as they overtake.
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And it's ''all come willing now,
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Spend a shilling now,
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Stack up the back of your new motor-car.''
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There's home-dyed woolens, and wee plastic [cuillins]
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[blessed? ] [cuchulains? ]
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[cuchulain == mythical irish hero --- wee plastic cuchulains? ]
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[
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(jo lobb) explains: broadford is a town on
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Skye (where the road that passes dun ringill leaves the main
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Road, incidentally) and skye's famous cuillin hills are nearby.
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I suppose tourists could be expected to buy wee plastic models
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Of spectacular hills .... also, the cuillin hills are ''also
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Known as the coolins or cuchullins, possibly after an ossianic
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Hero...'', so maybe wee plastic model heroes do make sense, after
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All.]
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The day of the broadford bazaar.
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Out of the north, no oil-rigs are drifting.
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And jobs for the many are down to the few.
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Blue-bottle choppers, they visit no longer.
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Like flies to the jampots, they were just passing through.
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And it's ''all come willing now,
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Spend a shilling now,
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Stack up the back of your new motor-car''
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Where once stood oil-rigs so phallic
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There's only swear-words in gaelic
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To say at the broadford bazaar.
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All kinds of people come down for the opening.
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Crofters and cottiers, white [wild? ] settlers galore.
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[crofter == farmer renting land]
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[cottier == farmer renting land]
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And up on the hill, there's an old sheep that's dying,
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But it had two new lambs born just a fortnight before.
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And it's ''all come willing now,
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Spend a shilling now,
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Stack up the back of your new motor-car.''
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We'll take pounds, francs and dollars from the well-heeled,
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And stamps from the green shield.
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The day of the broadford bazaar.
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