Born on the mountain tops of Tennessee, Mrs Basil Nardly-Stoads later gained something of a reputation as an Indian fighter. Some maintained that she was a fighter who specialised in fighting Indians; others, more charitably inclined, insisted that she was a fighter of Indian origin. Whatever the truth of the matter, no such ambiguity attached to Andy Stewart whose A Scottish Soldier was unequivocally about a soldier who was Scottish. Incidentally, you may not know that Stewart's Cambeltowntown Loch was once banned by the BBC because the Corporation thought that the chorus
was an incitement to drink!
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