Bonnie Susie Cleland, as spectacular as it is, is just one of many songs in the tradition dealing with parental opposition to their childrens' choice of a partner.
It's very easy to be smug and point the finger at those living in earlier times or of different cultures and beliefs.
The last Magdalene Laundry, where young Irish women were sent to be treated like slaves, beaten and abused (physically and sexually) for breaking the conventions of a Catholic society and not "honouring thy father and thy mother" only closed in the 1970s.
Jim Carroll
PS Hi Sue v