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The Keach in the Creel Ewan MacColl child 281
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The Keach in the Creel • Ewan MacColl,Peggy Seeger • Bothy Ballads of Scotlands • Child Ballad #281 • • A young woman tells a man that her parents keep her too close for them to meet. The man takes a ladder and a reel to get up and into her bedroom through the chimney. Her mother is suspicious and sends the father to check on the girl. The daughter assures her father she was praying for him and her mother.The mother then goes to check for herself. She is caught up in reel and swung about.
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