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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en-GB' lang='en-GB'> <head> <meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='Content-Type' /> <title>La belle amour - lyrics - Diggiloo Thrush</title> <base target='_top' /> <link rel='shortcut icon' href='favicon.ico' /> <meta http-equiv='Content-Style-Type' content='text/css' /> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='css/styles.css' /> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='css/lyric.css' /> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='css/scripts.css.php?011' /> <script type='text/javascript' src='js/artists.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='js/scripts.js.php?latLink'></script> <link rel='start' href='http://diggiloo.net/' title='Front page' /> <link rel='contents' href='http://diggiloo.net/' title='Front page' /> <link rel='previous' href='/?1957de' /> <link rel='next' href='/?1957dk' /> <link rev='made' href='mailto:webmaster@diggiloo.net' /> </head> <body scroll='yes'> <div id='container'> <div class='noscreen'>http://diggiloo.net/</div> <div id='banner' style='width: 100%;'> <h1 style='padding:0;margin:0;'><a title="Home" href='http://diggiloo.net/'><img src='/gfx/logo.jpg' width='553px' height='101px' style='vertical-align: bottom;' alt='The Diggiloo Thrush - 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a type of French white wine.</li> <li><span class='noteheading'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/musette" title="Look for Musette on wikipedia.org" target='_blank'>Musette</a></span> - an air or dance written for the musette, a type of bellows blown bagpipe found in rural France.</li></ul> </div> </div> <table id='footer' style='width: 100%; border-top: dotted 1px #000000;'> <tr><td width='50px'></td> <td width='100%'><p>If you spot any errors on this page, please don't hesitate to <a title='Contact' href='/?contact.1957fr'>tell us</a>. 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