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Thread #67903   Message #1137652
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
15-Mar-04 - 11:26 PM
Thread Name: Songs whose emphasis or meaning changed
Subject: RE: Origins: songs whose emphasis or meaning changed
How about "The Mountains of Mourne?" I've heard that it was first written to poke fun at a naive country boy, but now people don't see the humor. I know that when I first heard it as a teenager, I thought it a sympathetic song about someone coming to a big city in a strange country.