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Thread #137757   Message #3162906
Posted By: MGM·Lion
30-May-11 - 11:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Time Cat o' Nine (Lord Invader)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Time Cat o' Nine (Lord Invader)
Another song in which parent-child cp occurs, it has just come back to me: ~~ some versions of "17 Come Sunday", a thread on which has just been refreshed, & in which I posted the following a while back:

---"'Age of consent', oft referred to in this thread, is an arbitrary man-made and variable construct anyhow, not a Law of Nature. There was no such in British law till mid-C19. The girl in the song, taking it to date from earlier than that, and the young narrator, would have been breaking no laws except parental prohibitions — which could, tho, be effective: I recall one version where the mother

"seized her by the hair of her head
And out of the room she brought her
And with the butt of a hazel twig
She was the well-paid daughter"."---

~M~