Brian,

There is no she. That's the whole point. "Mary" is Jimmy Carroll the well known folksong collector and verbal pyromaniac doing his Handsome Cabin Boy act, except that he's not very handsome.

Cheers,

Fred McCormick

A chara literally means my friends and makes perfect sense in the way it was used which was the only thing that did in the last message.
I thought she was being ironic like the feller with the brass knuckles.
Brian Rooney