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Thread #173127 Message #4198223
Posted By: Helen
28-Feb-24 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: ADD: A Young Virgin (song about suitors)
Subject: RE: This young virgin (song about suitors)
She mentions the song in an interview with The Guardian, but it is not on that album, First Farewell
"Your new album, First Farewell, is moving and playful. One song, Lubrication, has a lyric about older bodies needing “grease to help ’em do their jobs”. You’re relishing the euphemisms as you sing, aren’t you?
"'I am! Folk is full of raunchy songs but they’re not often sung. I have another song called The Young Virgin, where a woman has 40 lovers who bring along the tools of their trade: a blacksmith’s anvil, the glistening pipe of a druggist, the lance of a doctor,,,'"