| Violent Femmes – Country Death Song Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[aczinke:18684] It's the basis for the Hansel & Gretel fable. Next to a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter who had come upon such hard times that he could scarcely provide daily bread for his wife and his two children, Hansel and Gretel. Finally he could no longer even manage this, and he did not know where to turn for help. One evening as he was lying in bed worrying about his problems, his wife said to him, "Listen, man, early tomorrow take the two children, give each of them a little piece of bread, then lead them into the middle of thickest part of the woods, make a fire for them, and leave them there, for we can no longer feed them." "No, woman," said the man, "I cannot bring myself to abandon my own children to wild animals that would quickly tear them to pieces." "If you don't do it," said the woman, "all of us will starve together," and she gave him no peace until he said yes. |
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