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Thread #106933 Message #2213303
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
11-Dec-07 - 03:40 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Songs about women killing men
Subject: RE: Origins: Songs about women killing men
There is no evidence that Barbara Allen or Lord Randall's unnamed lover killed anyone. The songs are just laying a guilt trip on a woman who didn't knuckle under a suitor just because he fancied her.
Life expectancy was much shorter in earlier centuries, and the reason is obvious. People, especially men, died of love all too easily.