dwelch@tzone.UUCP (Dan Welch) (03/26/91)
Fellow love-hounds, with better hearing than mine: What is the last verse of "The Handsome Cabin Boy"? It seems to be the most crucial one in the whole song, and yet I just can't understand what She is singing in the third line. "For 'tis I ..." and then I'm lost. Thanks for help from a desparate man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Daniel Welch | "Kate Bush is the sort of performer | | Tandem Computers, Inc. | for whom the word 'superstar' is | | Austin, TX, USA | belittling." | | halley!tzone!dwelch@cs.utexas.edu | Mike Davies, _Melody_Maker_ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.EDU (Jeff Burka) (03/27/91)
Daniel Welch asks: >What is the last verse of "The Handsome Cabin Boy"? "For 'tis either you or me's betrayed the handsome cabin boy" The captain's wife had been sneaking kisses from what she thought was a cabin boy; the captain himself, knowing the cabin boy to be female, had actually gotten her pregnant. You might want to take a look at IED's transcription of the lyrics. He includes two other verses that KaTe left out (the original folksong is rather bawdy; IED speculates (and I can't help but agree!) that KaTe left these out because they would have destroyed the dark and somber mood of her interpretation...). Available on the archives, of course... Jeff -- |Jeffrey C. Burka |"I've lost my way through this world of | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | profanities/I thrive on the wind and | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | the rain and the cold." --Happy Rhodes|