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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 361013, member: 2844&quot;]Great music. I know the song well, it is Macpherson&#039;s Farewell.</p><p>The words were allegedly written by 17th century Scottish outlaw Jamie Macpherson shortly before his execution.</p><p>He was a colourful character, the son of a Scottish laird (lord) and a beautiful Gypsy girl, and was actually executed for being a Gypsy. It has always been beyond me how being of a certain ethnicity can be against the law. But he was popular during his lifetime and became so well-known there is even a wiki page on him:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Macpherson" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Macpherson" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Macpherson</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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