Bothy ballad
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Bothy ballads are songs sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland.
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Bothies are farm outbuildings, where unmarried labourers used to sleep, often in harsh conditions.[1] In the evening, to entertain themselves, these bothy bands sang. Several Child Ballads that had died out elsewhere in the UK survived until the 1920s, sung by these workers. It was a male-only environment and some songs are obscene. They celebrated ploughmen as lovers ("The Plooman Laddies", "My Darling Ploughman Boy").
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