Fascinating!!!

This discussion is reminding me why I love folk music so much. The best folk songs touch on issues that affect all of us, by virtue of our being human. I think that this ballad does allow for different interpretations, hence people's ideas of who is the 'baddy' differ depending upon their own moral standpoint. So it turns fairly quickly into, not a dicussion of the song any more, but rather a philosophical discussion of morals and values infherent in toady's society

I would really like to go back to a question that somebody raised earlier - Is this based on a 'true' event? Anybody know?