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Thread #127154 Message #2835247
Posted By: MGM·Lion
10-Feb-10 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
Subject: RE: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
Re Maudlin's profession ~ ref also to song sung by Frankie Armstrong:~
As I came in by Tansy's Wood and down by Geordie's Mill O,
Four and twenty of Geordie's men kissed me against my will O.
~ poignant tale of imprisoned prostitute who attributes her fall to having been gang-raped. It is called 'The Magdalene's Lament'.