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Re: violin ?

From: llovich@aol.com (Llovich)
Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:51:04 -0400
Subject: Re: violin ?
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Posted-Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:51:04 -0400
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In article <allen_watson-290994090814@watson.apple.com>,
allen_watson@quickmail.apple.com (Allen Watson III) writes:

> I think the song is about young
>people who are discovering love and patriotism and legends and getting
>their emotions all tangled together.  I am no longer young, but I
remember
>it well...

Did I miss something? I always thought the song was about an old veteran
on his deathbed ... I mean, isn't the line "I don't want to go" an oblique
way of saying "I don't want to die and leave my beautiful England behind"?

Of course, for years I thought the Pretenders' song "Kid" was a love song
till someone told me the character in the song is a prostitute --
certainly changed my way of seeing the world.

Until teh next time,
Vanceman