The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20722   Message #218381
Posted By: Jacob B
26-Apr-00 - 02:25 PM
Thread Name: Songs About Disease
Subject: RE: Help: Songs About Disease
In case anyone is wondering about the true source of Streets of Laredo - "Young Trooper Cut Down In His Prime" and "Pills of White Mercury" are two different titles for the same song. (At least, I assume they are. The version of Young Trooper I've heard has a line in it about "salts of white mercury".)

I thought the "rose that never will decay" in Bunch of Thyme referred to the child that the woman had.