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Thread #43715   Message #641583
Posted By: Desdemona
03-Feb-02 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Help: Horse Thief / Crafty Maid's Policy
Subject: RE: Help: Song about lady horse thief
There are literally dozens of songs on this theme; no-one's mentioned "The Courteous Knight" yet, one of my personal favourites. She not only steals one of his horses, she makses a right fool of him by tricking him into taking her home so he can have his will of her in comfort, whereupon she "rode in at the wicket gate & shut the four-eared fool without" (the knight on his horse)!

Also "The Farmer In Cheshire", whose daughter handily outwits a "lusty highwayman" (The Copper family had a great version of this; Magpie lane recorded it as well.

Oh---there's so many; lots of easily bilked horsemen riding around with only one thing on their minds, it would appear!