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And I bleer my een wi’ greetin. John Purser on Burns’s Ay Waukin O: ‘for it was a new
pencil on paper, 2008, A2 thing, to enter so deeply into the feeling and inner mood of
a tune and realize it in language.’ 1
Douglas Young talks of ‘the typical Scot as
a schizophrenic creature at once realistic and recklessly
sentimental.’ 2
1 Scotland’s Music – John Purser, p231
2 A Clear Voice – Douglas Young, p146
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