It must be something of an "achievement" to mistake the epic storyline of fair Eleanor adopting a strategy of crossdressing to flee her spectacularly dysfunctional family, get a job as sweet William at court then tell the king to get stuffed when he finds out and wants to dress her up as a queen, as "bloody awful". Though so as not to confuse this "irrelevance with a big mouth" even further, it should be said that the stupendous and horrifying bit comes at the beginning, not the end. There's an English version of this ballad (entitled simply Flower Of Serving Men but 12 quatrains long which comes in at under 4 minutes. I recommend it for those whose absence of concentration makes listening for 10 too hard.
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