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Jul. 9th, 2019 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI think my favorite thing about the Oysterband & June Tabor recording of Dives and Lazarus is not the fact that it is eminently singable or that the instrumentation goes significantly harder than one would except of a Child ballad based on a Biblical parable, but the fact that the final stanza is:
Hell is dark, Hell is deep
Hell is FULL OF MICE
It's a pity that any poor sinful soul
Should be barred from our savior, Christ
I do not in any way blame the singers for this - I'm absolutely sure that this is a traditional line - but, c'mon, old-timey people! Surely there are better rhymes for the word "Christ" out there!
Hell is dark, Hell is deep
Hell is FULL OF MICE
It's a pity that any poor sinful soul
Should be barred from our savior, Christ
I do not in any way blame the singers for this - I'm absolutely sure that this is a traditional line - but, c'mon, old-timey people! Surely there are better rhymes for the word "Christ" out there!
