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Thread #134892   Message #3072115
Posted By: Bernard
11-Jan-11 - 10:02 AM
Thread Name: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Subject: RE: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
I've been singing this 'extra verse' to Claudy Banks, which gives the song the ending I thought it may really have had in the real world...!
When Betsy, she heard him say so
She smacked him around the head!
Saying 'After I have finished with you
You will wish you were really dead!
You'll wish that you had perished
All on the coast of Spain,
And if you know what's good for you
You'll just sod off again!'

I've always thought the happy endings on most 'broken token' songs were a bit far fetched...!

;o)