The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16014   Message #149628
Posted By: john
14-Dec-99 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: The Bantam Cock
Subject: RE: The Bantam Cock
Thanks for the download and poem.

I didn't want to join the discussion of a possible subtext to the song until, as suggested, I had thought carefully.

I have concluded that it is a song in the old country tradition of fecundity and the celebration of the same.

Viva Le Coq