This was one of my favorite songs when I was a little girl. Disguised as a man and sailing off to war in search of her lost love, the heroine says to the ship's mate:
'I know my waist is slender, my fingers they are small
but it would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall ...'
sunday tune: the grateful dead - jack-a-roe
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