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Thread #77909   Message #2385939
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
10-Jul-08 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: I sing songs...about dead people
Subject: RE: I sing songs...about dead people
Earl Richard, or Young Hunting. ER visits his mistress brags about how he wont stay because he has found someone hotter, then hugs the mistress. Surprise, surprise, she stabs him.
A bird accuses her, she tries to trick it. My favourite recording is by Spiers and Boden. Here is a youtube, it starts at about 5:15 in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ILHUpi_ZKY
You can find the words here, but I would ignore the silly bit about transposition of souls.
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/steeleye.span/songs/younghunting.html