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[rm]

Not the lyrics of the version I have, but the notes below!

http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/f/femaledr.html

*obsess**obsess*

Yay for writing project for really long flight!

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[rufus.livejournal.com]

There's another version of that which is about a female sailor. Someone gave me a recording of it years ago (which has since been lost, dang it, and I have no idea who sang it) but one of the lyric fragments was "run the rigging again."

[rufus.livejournal.com]

ah-hah, found it:

http://www.broadside.org/music/lyrics/fairmaid.html

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Here's the Steeleye Span version.

Isn't this the BEST SONG IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE? No hyperbole, man. Mmmph!

And if you write fanfic on this I will read it or you will suffer.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Not fanfic. Novel.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

SCORE.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Excellent and wonderful, I would dearly love to read such a thing. I greatly enjoy the Steeleye Span version and I am also quite fascinated by this topic. I remember reading several accounts of young women dressing up as men and fighting in the Revolutionary War (and in later wars) in Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.