Re: the handsome cabin boy

[MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU]

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Hi!

Sorry, woj, but I agree with Jenn on this one:

>   For 'tis either you or me's betrayed the handsome cabin boy.
> 
> This makes a little more sense if you stick the missing second verse
> into the song:
>   The captain's wife she being on board, she seem-ed in great joy
>   To see her husband had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
>   And now and then she'd slip in a kiss, and she would have liked to toy
>   But it was the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy

Whoa!!!  I never knew there'd been a verse omitted there- that makes sense, as
I'd always thought things got a bit disjointed toward the end there.  That
makes the song *so* much more coherent, not to mention interesting!

Now the question arises: Why did KaTe leave it out?  I'm not going to buy the
explanation that she didn't want any >GASP< homosexual implications in the
song. We all know that's bull, especially in light of "Kashka From Baghdad" and 
a few others... 

Any ideas?

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