Supernatural
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The Silkie of Sule Skerry
This great Orkney ballad tells of a silkie, someone who is a seal when in the sea and a person when on the land. This seal man lives on small rocky island called a skerry - the one that is the farthest away from the shore. A human girl has a baby with … more »
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Devil in the Kitchen
This is a reel. The tune has many other names, such as Calum Crubach, Devil Shake the Half-Breed, Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth and The Prince of Wales Jig.According to Scott Skinner it was originally a pipe tune composed by William Ross, though … more »
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Deil's Awa Wi the Exciseman
This song by Robert Burns says that excisemen, who collected taxes on alcohol, and chased smugglers, were bad people who deserved to be taken away by the Devil, and everyone would be so happy they would dance!But at the time he wrote the song Burns was … more »