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Tam Lin's Coat — love is the thing that the dark obeys

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Love is the thing that the dark obeys. Track 6 of Sha La La (And Other Lies) — Child Ballad #39, the Scottish ballad where the lover doesn't die.

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Samuel Pepys heard it in 1666 and called it 'a little Scotch song'. Track 4 of Sha La La (And Other Lies) — Child Ballad #84 finally goes electric.

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