over the hill and far away
Henry Secularpeturbations
henryssecularpeturbations at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 19 09:25:44 CST 2003
Yes, to grandmother's house....note how over the hill
and far away fitd in with the sea, the songs, the fact
that when Cindy tells her husband and his pals to get
out of her life and go over the cliff, she also quotes
the phrase "over the hill and far away" and that
phrase is at least 700 years old, maybe older and has
to do with playing a sea song that attracts the
fairies (in Ireland they are called fairies, but
whatever, we could as easily use the Greek Dryad...and
I'm not that much up on this stuff anymore, but both
are associated with, for good and bad, the gypsies).
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