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Thread #137313   Message #3140200
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
22-Apr-11 - 05:46 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Donkey Want Water
Subject: RE: Origins: My Donkey Want Water
Just one, eh? When I was 17 (way back in rare old times of 1978/79) I was all about the euphemistically rude folk songs - which you'll find by the shed load in the English Tradition of such things. Never reworked them though, which one doesn't, but obviously Calypso is a different scene to Revival Folk Song, which aren't there to be messed with in quite the same way. Even a song like Seeds of Love is full of random euphemism - as oppose to hard & fast symbolism which I dispute anyway; Butter & Cheese & All likewise, both of which are pretty surreal as narratives, though the latter is quite fun on the surface of it. These things work on all sorts of levels though, metaphors, euphemisms, otherwise it's just innocent fun for all ages with images of a thirsty donkey kicking his stall to bits.