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Thread #2942 Message #143630
Posted By: InOBU
02-Dec-99 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: Origin: The Butcher Boy / Butcher's Boy
Subject: RE: words of butcher boy
There is a song, in someway related, false love and hanging, in which the wronged female gets a great old revenge, I sing it when someone sings the Butcher Boy, after she hangs herself, the wee lassie comes back and haunts the fellow, finally dragging him down to hell, it is called the dreadful ghost, and it is on an album calle d Dark Ships in the Forrest, by John Roberts and Tony Barrand...