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Thread #52041 Message #994240
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
31-Jul-03 - 12:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Grey Cock (NOT Penguin version)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Grey Cock (NOT Penguin version)

I'm puzzled. In the first verse of the version I posted above, the text is:
             I must be going, no longer staying
                The burning Thames I have to cross

What's the significance of "the burning Thames"?   The Thames I know, of course, but "burning"?   Perhaps that the water is hurtful to a ghost?

Dave Oesterreich