Well. That was weird....

[conuly]

I was puttering around making lunch when I realized I was humming something. But what? Halfway through I realized I was singing - but what!?!? I knew not.

So I kept singing until the end of the verse... and the second... and it hit me. I was singing Lord Randal.

Except I don't know Lord Randal, although apparently I do. I'd skimmed the words yesterday while looking something different up for somebody else, and I guess it stuck. In one skimming. Weird. (Why this talent never strikes when I need it to, I don't know.)

Comments

[polydad.livejournal.com]

So where are these lyrics... ?

[conuly]

Oh, I know I got this set off of contemplator.com. It's in her Child ballads section.

[conuly]

Although since I realized what I was doing I hopped over to mudcat and have been picking up new lyrics to round this out - I weary of the long list of "what's everybody in your family getting" so I'm stretching the description of the poisoning and just ending with him dying dead. Whatever.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Versus dying alive?

[conuly]

Hey, RAID kills bugs dead. And Lord Randal as well, apparently, when snuck into eel and eel stew.