The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150702   Message #3512408
Posted By: Lighter
06-May-13 - 09:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Changing the sex of the speaker of a well-loved song to match your own!

What vanity! Sheer show-biz, and I've railed against it before.

It distances the action from first-person to third, thus draining off half the song's immediacy.