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BDenz Lyr Req: The Divil [sic] and the Farmer (14) The Divil [sic] and the Farmer 05 Jan 00


This one came to my attention off the Steeleye Span album, Time. They use a snippet of it ["They say that the women are worse than the men; they go down to hell and they come back again"] mixed in with Tam Lin. My husband said he knew it from a Burl Ives record and sure enough, there it was. But it's really short, and such tunes are NEVER that short. The gist of the story is that a devil comes up and steals a farmer's wife down to hell. He ... um ... does nasty things [the lyrics are relatively bawdy] and the devil gives her back to her husband. The last line in Ives' version is "They say that the women are worse than the men, they get taken down to hell and chucked out again."

We're working on Tam Lin -- seemed like a likely candidate to put with it ....


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