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Thread #106455   Message #2199267
Posted By: Dan Schatz
21-Nov-07 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: Song on a taboo subject?
Subject: RE: Song on a taboo subject?
There are a few ballads that sort of hint around the edges of it, if you've a mind to read it that way:

"'Daughter, O daughter - daughter,' cried the king,
'Of guilt you may be free.
For if I were a woman, as I am a man,
My bedfellow he would be.'"

-Thomas of Winesbury


"Down on the ground she fell like one a-dying,
Tearing her arms abroad, sobbing and signing.
There's no believing men; not you're own brother -
So girls, if you must love, love one another."

- "The Captain Cried All Hands"

Dan