happy? - Oct 4 (stabbed with a fork)

Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 4 (stabbed with a fork)
From: MuddleC
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 01:05 PM

watch out, they normally carry a canteen of cutlery, including fish slicers and assorted skewers

Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 4 (stabbed with a fork)
From: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 09:16 AM

Apparently the day my younger brother was brought home for the first time, I (being nearly 2 at the time) threw a fork at him. I still haven't got over the grief of displacement.

I wonder if there's an Indian version of the song, in which the assailant smothers his rival with a chapatti?

Subject: happy? - Oct 4 (stabbed with a fork)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 08:25 AM

          On the fourth day of October I watched him coming home,
          Not thinking on a danger as he walked all alone,
          When like some hungry wolf or lion I sprang upon my prey,
          Twas with a fork I stabbed him and took his life away.
  
                  "Wexford Girl" from MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada

An interesting Maritime version-with-voice from the vast song family. (Great web site, too; a fitting homage to one of the great scholar/collectors.)

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