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Thread #127524   Message #3419628
Posted By: MGM·Lion
14-Oct-12 - 09:48 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Who wrote The Night Visiting Song
Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote The Night Visiting Song
I always feel somewhat amused by the opening of one version:

I'm a rover, seldom sober,
I'm a rover of high degree,
And when I'm drinking I'm always thinking...

A charmingly confused amalgam, I always feel, of several discrete braggart-folk-hero images!

~Michael~