Re: Lionheart's low rating

[Ron Pettit <Ron@petbros.demon.co.uk>]

In article: <5dGZvWaIQdB@link-m54.link-m.muc.de>  R.EISERMANN@LINK-M.MUC.DE
writes:
> "O England my Lionheart" is childish patriotism to me,

For me it is one of Kate's best stories-in-song and I suggest that it 
is about a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain going down in 
flames ('Dropped from my black Spitfire to my funeral barge') over 
the fields of Kent (sometimes referred to as The Garden of England) 
and that pilot's last thoughts. As such I find it very moving and 
the references and feelings very much as I imagine that a young man 
of that era and in those circumstances would have.
--
Ron.