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From: mk59200@proffa.cc.tut.fi (Markku Kolkka)
Date: 11 May 1994 14:49:47 GMT
Subject: Re: 97 lines?
To: rec-music-gaffa@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: pptjc@vaxk.bton.ac.uk's message of Wed, 11 May 1994 10:16:28 -0400
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Computing Centre
References: <9405102251.tn375807@aol.com> <1994May11.104051.13805@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
>>>>> "Peter" == It's in the trees It's coming <pptjc@vaxk.bton.ac.uk> writes:
> I've seen this question a couple of times now today and I've
> always thought that it was a metal casket too but now that I
> come to think about it some more it occurred to me that you only
> get shipped back in a metal casket (lead to be exact) if you've
> been exposed to radiation.
I thought corpses are _always_ put in metal caskets when they are
transported in airplanes.
> This song appears to relate to the first or second World War
> type of era
No, it's set in modern times. Remember the lines:
"Mourning in the aerodrome"
and
"Should have been a rock star./But he didn't have the money for a
guitar."
Those place the events to 1950's at the earliest.
--
Markku Kolkka
mk59200@cc.tut.fi