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Thread #22845   Message #259293
Posted By: GUEST,Mrr sans cookie? I thought I reset it...
17-Jul-00 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: Ballads: Edward vs 2 Brothers
Subject: RE: Ballads: Edward vs 2 Brothers
Anyway. Susan of DT, the version I have of the Suffolk Miracle must differ from yours. There is no promised appointment, and she doesn't find out he's dead till he's been dead for the prescribed 12 months before rising and going after her. In fact it has one of the funniest lines I've ever heard in a ghost ballad: "The young man rose / Put on his clothes / ..." - I've always wondered whether his clothes were left on his grave for him? Were they the clothes in which he was buried that his "ghost" had to remove from the corpse before going off? Anyway, I'll post those lyrics as a LyrAdd, since they aren't in the DT.