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Thread #102317   Message #3798943
Posted By: GUEST,Mark Bluemel
04-Jul-16 - 05:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Strawberry Fair - old English trad.
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Strawberry Fair - old English trad.
"I think the reference to lock and key has to do with siphoning off some strawberries from the shed or warehouse to line the pockets of the poor."

I think Freud (and the conventions of the tradition) might have some other interpretation....