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Thread #85935 Message #1595091
Posted By: Mick Pearce (MCP)
01-Nov-05 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: charlotte renals' a man from the north #4
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: charlotte renals' a man from the north #
Roberto I can offer some help:
v2) You get me some of my mother's foom(?)
That's what it sounds like. The usual word is fee but whether this is a traveller word for it or not I don't know. It could even be a dialect pronounciation of food. (Same word of course in verse 3)
v4) Those words that he shouted to me
v7) For it isn't a fitting such ruffian as you
This is just a typo in your version above.
v11)And got hold of her damber(?) gray
damber: the word is usually dapple or dappled, so again I don't know if this is a dialect pronounciation.
v11)She got back to her father's house
I think back rather than by
v12)Now don't you flitter nor flutter Polly
I think this is what she sings here.
The rest of your transcription (as usual!) seems perfect. Perhaps someone else can shed a light on my two dubious words.
Mick