The Mudcat Café TM
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."