The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124927 Message #2763034
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
09-Nov-09 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Why does the song end like this?-Young Billy Brown
Subject: RE: Why does the song end like this?
After all, whatever the rights and wrongs of it, he's the father of her child.
Also, if it makes it easier to sing, it's also possible to interpret her words as meant ironically. "I never shall chastise him for using of me so - not half I won't..."
Or of course she could mean it both ways. People are complicated.