The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3918 Message #522210
Posted By: DougR
06-Aug-01 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: ...all wrapped in white linen.
Subject: RE: ...all wrapped in white linen.
I think of it as a shroud, as many others of you do, and the narrator as a ghost. In Burl Ives song book he merely notes that it is a "variant on an Irish song, "The Unfortunate Rake."