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Thread #134892   Message #3072537
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Whittle
11-Jan-11 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Subject: RE: lets rewrite folksongs with happy ending
Thats lovely Clontarf83!

I dunno, forget about moral tales for the young Mark Clark.

Give the people in folksongs a bit of a break. Think of pretty polly......poor lass! named after a bleeding parrot, what sort of a start in life is that. attracted to an inbred who spends half the night digging a grave for her.

lets see if we can fix her up with a nice young man who will respect her and build up a tights empire in her honour.