The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5330   Message #2348136
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
24-May-08 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Lavender's Blue
Subject: RE: Origins: Lavender's Blue
It helps to know something about the times in which the song was written. The printers who published it and the yuppies who versified it assumed that country people were brutish louts. (They must be; they're poor and have no education.)

The song, with its title 'The Kind Country Lovers,' shows that even simple people can be kind to each other. It also asserts that sex under a bush can be loving.

How many other songs are there where sex is leered at and love is denigrated? Answer: jillions.

The song is also thought-provoking. Most of us could talk for a long time on the danger inherent in the line 'You must love me...cause I love you.'