The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127154   Message #2850855
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
26-Feb-10 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
Subject: RE: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
American traditional song 'Sea Lion Woman' (See Line Woman / C-Line Woman etc.) which is thought to be a corruption of 'see the lying woman', I think fits in with the anti-heroine remit.

Lots of remixes out there of the Nina Simone classic (which is the way I first heard it), here's another take by Christine and Katherine Shipp She Began to Lie