The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20109 Message #2713746
Posted By: MGM·Lion
01-Sep-09 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Blackwaterside
Subject: RE: Origins: Blackwaterside
Way back, 9 years ago[!], the OP added a comment in reply to another post, saying she had been struck by the phrase Bird In A Cage in one version posted which she hadn't come across before, and asking, was it in any other versions? Nobody ever answered so far as I could see: so, in case she is still wondering —
There is a version, or a related song, actually called Bird In A Cage, titled thus on DT, and in DT's named source:- Stephen Sedley's Seeds Of Love book from all those years ago. It has a structure and a tune closely related to the T·For·Tommy family of songs, even including the uninvolved narrator 'lean[ing] his back to a garden wall to hear two lovers talk', but does not have any analogous chorus to that group.