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Thread #154630   Message #3629658
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
02-Jun-14 - 04:25 AM
Thread Name: Songs about women, but not about love
Subject: RE: Songs about women, but not about love
This is like the game where you try to find a film where women talk to each other about anything except men! (Almost impossible.)

What about Samhradh! Samhradh! It's not about an individual woman, but it's about girls going up to the hills booleying.

And what's that other doffing mistress song that Kate Rusby sings that is a loving portrait of a forewoman? A nice English song.

And there's Eeela Weela Waulia, about the old woman who lived in a wood and stuck her penknife in the babby's heart.

Would you find any songs in the War of Independence canon - I somehow can't imagine Helena Molony singing anything moony-eyed.