The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8362   Message #51788
Posted By: Barry Finn
02-Jan-99 - 04:14 PM
Thread Name: Songs about women coping
Subject: RE: Animaterra: Songs about women coping?
For the killing "Willie Taylor" has a stand up out come & another one while we're on the waves might be Canada-i-o. There's also a grim side of coping. Marrying to get out of a hateful existance, even if it's by means of trickery or by claiming the right of some one's hand through rape is a sad sight. "The Shearing's Not For You" a beautiful song has, the awful line "Do you mind on younder hill, when you swore you would me kill, if you did not have your will, my Bonny Lassie-O". It's an old theme in traditional music going back some ways in song. Barry