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@libris I am glad to hear you enjoyed the song. If you wouldn't mind indulging me I have one more musical selection I thought you might appreciate since you have spent time in Scotland. Eddi Reader recorded a beautiful album of Robert Burns songs aptly titled "Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns". She writes in the introduction "In school I often thought Robert Burns was for the highbrow and not for the likes of me, the hardly educated, council estate, overspill girl...now I see that I was wrong and that I am precisely the person Burns wrote for. As I read more about him I get the sense that he was the same as the rest of us, a spokesman for the glorious in the ordinary, the sublime in the mundane". On the recording she sings the songs with a kind of visceral emotion that suits this sentiment perfectly, a reminder that Burns wrote these words not from an ivory tower but as a man with many of the same hopes and heartbreaks all of us have in the modern world today. The musical arrangements are beautiful, combining a group of talented folk musicians with a string orchestra made up of players from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.