The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80849 Message #1476784
Posted By: michaelr
03-May-05 - 12:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Fair Phoebe and her Dark-Eyed Sailor
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: FAIR PHOEBE AND HER DARK-EYED SAILOR
Sounds to me like someone took the trad "Dark-eyed Sailor" and gave it the soap opera treatment (as in Victorian sentimental hype). It's obvious that the name Phoebe is not native to the song at all, at all.