[Sca-cooks] Re: Eggs & Marrowbones

[Elaine Koogler]

Dear John (Uh oh...there's a song that starts off that way...didn't mean it
that way...hmmmmm.....)

At any rate...as usual, you've bailed me out.  Yes, that's exactly the one.
Believe it or not, the CD I had with the song on it got scratched and is not
fixable, so I couldn't play it to get the exact information...

I think that the thing that sticks in my mind is that I could almost see the
very satisfied expression on the husband's face as he watched her drown!!

Kiri
----- Original Message -----



> The song that Kiri is thinking of is probably "Old Woman from Wexford,"
> which was recorded by the Clancy Brothers, an Irish folk group {album
titles
> like "Songs of Irish Rebellion" lets you know how they felt about the
> English!}.  Synopsis:  "She loved her husband dear enough, but another man
> twice as well."  So, she asks the doctor what to feed him to make him go
> blind; he recommends eggs and marrowbones.  She feeds them to her husband,
> he eats them and goes blind.  He wants to drown himself but it would be a
> sin, so she volunteers to push him in, gets a running start, he steps
aside,
> she goes in the water instead.  I'm sure there's a website where you can
> look up the exact lyrics.
>
> John le Burguillun
>
>