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The verse twelve recording is real

okay so apparently a woman's grandmother recorded herself singing the Rattlin' Bog in like the 1950s or 60s and it's CIRCULATING NOW and in the recording... she keeps singing past the hair. there are MORE verses. and they loop. the song loops back on itself and keeps going and i listened to it for like 20 minutes and i still cant find where it ends??

- flea -

I've been listening to this recording and I'm documenting every verse. The structure is INSANE. After the hair, it goes into something that almost sounds like the beginning again, but not quite. It's like the song is describing itself. Or... remembering itself?

- BogArchaeologist -

From a mathematical standpoint, this is significant. If the song contains infinite recursive variations, it matches the pattern I identified in my paper. This isn't random. The Rattlin' Bog might be a perfect mathematical structure dressed in folk song clothing.

- Dr. Niamh T.M. (TCD) -

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