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Thread #19113 Message #4132980
Posted By: Levana Taylor
19-Jan-22 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Brimbledon Fair / Young Ramble-Away
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brimbledon Fair / Young Ramble-Away
Do Baring-Gould's manuscripts of the songs he collected survive? His publications certainly are excedingly prim. That said, rewrite or no, I'm unable to hear a song about a woman offering a man fruit as anything but a double entendre!