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|f_tune_title=Broom the Bonny Bonny Broom
|f_aka=Broom of the Cowdenknowes (1), Cowden Knows, Cowden Knowes, Cowdenknowes, Lovely Northerne Lass (The), O My King, O the broom
|f_country=England, Scotland
|f_genre=English, Northumbrian/Borders, Scottish
|f_rhythm=Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Country Dance
|f_time_signature=4/4, 2/4
|f_key=D
|f_accidental=1 sharp
|f_mode=Mixolydian
|f_history=SCOTLAND(Central Scotland), ENGLAND(North East)
|f_structure=One part
|f_book_title=The English Dancing Master
|f_collector=John Playford
|f_year=1651
|f_theme_code_index=551H1H 1H544H
|f_score=1
|f_player=Robin Williamson
|f_album=Legacy of the Scottish Harpers vol. 1
|f_label=Flying Fish Records FF358
}}
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T:Broom, the Bonny, Bonny Broom
M:2/2
L:1/8
S:Playford (1651)
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X:1
T:Broom of Cowden knows
M:C
L:1/8
B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection, part 2” (Edinburgh, c. 1724, pp. 26-27)
F: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/2966
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Broom of the Cowdenknows, The
M:C
L:1/8
S:Allan Ramsay - Tea Table Misclellany  (1734)
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T:Broom of the Cowdenknows
M:Cd
L:1/8
R:Air
Q:"Slow"
B:Francis Barsanti – “Collection of Old Scots Tunes” (Edinburgh, 1742, p. 13)
F: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b0/IMSLP94625-PMLP194938-Barsanti_A_Collection_of_Old_Scots_Tunes.pdf
N:Francis Barsanti  (1690-1775) was  an Italian flautist, oboist and composer who spent 
N:most of his life in London and Edinburgh.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Broom of Cowdon Knows, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6 (1760, p. 21)
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X:3
T:Broom of the Cowdon knows, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Air
Q:"Slow"
S:McGibbon - Scots Airs, book III, p. 67  (1762)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Compainon
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T:Broom on Cowdenknows, The
M:C 
L:1/8
R:Air
B:John Moore music manuscript (Shropshire c. 1837-40, Book 2, p. 66)
B: https://www.vwml.org/topics/historic-dance-and-tune-books/Moore2
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