Tác giả : Jethro Tull
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Dirty white caravans down our road, sailing. 
Vivas, cortinas, weaving in their wake. 
With hot, red-faced drivers, horns flattened, fists whaling, 
Putting trust in blind corners as they overtake. 
 
And it's ``all come willing now, 
Spend a shilling now, 
Stack up the back of your new motor-car.'' 
There's home-dyed woolens, and wee plastic [cuillins] 
[blessed?] [cuchulains?] 
[cuchulain == mythical irish hero --- wee plastic cuchulains?] 
 
[jo-l@kcbbs.gen.nz (jo lobb) explains: broadford is a town on 
Skye (where the road that passes dun ringill leaves the main 
Road, incidentally) and skye's famous cuillin hills are nearby. 
I suppose tourists could be expected to buy wee plastic models 
Of spectacular hills .... also, the cuillin hills are ``also 
Known as the coolins or cuchullins, possibly after an ossianic 
Hero...'', so maybe wee plastic model heroes do make sense, after 
All.] 
 
The day of the broadford bazaar. 
 
Out of the north, no oil-rigs are drifting. 
And jobs for the many are down to the few. 
Blue-bottle choppers, they visit no longer. 
Like flies to the jampots, they were just passing through. 
 
And it's ``all come willing now, 
Spend a shilling now, 
Stack up the back of your new motor-car'' 
Where once stood oil-rigs so phallic 
There's only swear-words in gaelic 
To say at the broadford bazaar. 
 
All kinds of people come down for the opening. 
Crofters and cottiers, white [wild?] settlers galore. 
[crofter == farmer renting land] 
[cottier == farmer renting land] 
And up on the hill, there's an old sheep that's dying, 
But it had two new lambs born just a fortnight before. 
 
And it's ``all come willing now, 
Spend a shilling now, 
Stack up the back of your new motor-car.'' 
We'll take pounds, francs and dollars from the well-heeled, 
And stamps from the green shield. 
The day of the broadford bazaar.