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Thread #105143 Message #2173497
Posted By: Backwoodsman
18-Oct-07 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
Subject: RE: BBC Radio Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp
It's just a song. The Landlady needs to lighten up - she got her revenge when the girl was prosectuted and convicted as a felon.
Our history and culture is full of ne'er-do-wells who are, or have been, celebrated as heroes - Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Margaret Thatcher (who was actually Robin Hood in reverse, but is held as a heroine for kicking Argie ass in Las Malvinas) to name but three.
Congratulations to Dick Appleton for a great song in the Great British Tradition.
IMHO!