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Camlachie Burn

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection

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Camlachie Burn

"Camlachie Burn", a song which has been preserved in a scrapbook entitled Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850 which is held at the Mitchell Library.

This nonsense song presents some amusing yet implausible "facts" about Camlachie Burn, which now runs under Glasgow Green. It is doubtful indeed that whales ever swam in its waters, or that the Royal Yacht sailed on it!

Reference: GC 398.5 GLA

Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning

Keywords:
burns, Camlachie Burn, fishermen, fishing, folk songs, herrings, lyrics, Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850, oysters, Paris Exhibition, 1867, poetry, SS Great Eastern, street songs, whales, yachting



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