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re: Brigadoon song The Love of My Life -- Question

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:50 am EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Brigadoon song The Love of My Life -- Question - BroadwayTonyJ 10:29 am EDT 08/14/14
BroadwayTony1, at first it occurred to me that the verse in question might have been cut because it's somewhat suggestive, as you say. But then I rejected that idea, because I would say the following verse -- which apparently was retained -- is even more suggestive.

Here's the cut verse:

"Oh he was a poet, a rhymer was he
He read me some verse he had written for me
He said they would move me, these poems from his pen,
An' how right he was, because they moved me right into the glen.
We stayed till the dawn came an' lighted the sky,
Then I shook his hand an' I bid him good-bye.
I never went back, for what I had heard was true:
That a poet only writes about the things he cannot do."

And here's the even more suggestive verse (because of the "sword" line) that was apparently retained:

"Oh, he was a soldier, a fine Highland son.
He told me about all the battle he'd won.
He wasted his time tellin' me about his might,
For one look at him decided me to not put up a fight.
We skirmished for hours that night in the glen,
an' I found the sword has more might than the pen,
But when I was drowsin' I snored to my dismay,
An' he thought it was a bugle an' got up an' marched away."


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