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Thread #138368   Message #3170178
Posted By: Joe_F
13-Jun-11 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Subject: RE: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Allan Conn: The comment on the text in the DigiTrad agrees with you. However, in the context of the first stanza at least --

Now Sark runs to the Solway sands
And Tweed runs to the ocean
To mark where England's province stands
Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation

-- it seems pretty unambiguously to refer to England.