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|    soupdragon to soup    |
|    Re: Wha' saw the Tattie Howkers ?    |
|    09 Jan 15 20:24:12    |
   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   soup wrote in   
   news:m8m0fs$gbd$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 03/01/2015 01:24, davie622@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> On Tuesday, 4 February 2003 04:20:56 UTC-5, ian-s...@blueyonder.co.uk   
   >> wrote:   
   >>> Anyone have the words of this song ?   
   >   
   >> However the first verse ended thus -   
   >> 'Wha saw the tattie howkers sailin' doon the Broomielaw' !   
   >   
   > Should it not be "gangin' doon the broomilaw". Always thought it   
   > applied to itinerant workers mainly from Scotland not Ireland and the   
   > Broomielaw is a road in Newcastle.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomielaw   
      
   Photo here -   
      
   http://www.glasgowhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Lancelot-and-   
   Sultana-at-the-Broomielaw-1.jpg   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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