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612a Inland West Coast Roadtrips; Making Scottish Music; Oddball English Festivals

Travel with Rick Steves

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Neil Gough's Lament on the Death of His Second Wife

Scottish songwriters have explored all kinds of elements of our culture. There's a great deal of protest songs in Scotland and everything. I wrote some lyrics to probably the most famous lament, which is called Neil Gough's lament on the death of his second wife. That's a long metaphor, it's sad. It's an element that you like. We could do a fiddle in bull, which is... Oh yes. A lament would be a cappella by definition, isn't it? Or without music or not? I don't know. Well, I mean without a compliment without an instrument. So there are laments played on the pipes, laments playing on f

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