[Ulmawen]

• Words that can be sprinkled at random over folk songs:
  • gather,
  • farewell,
  • thee,
  • dead,
  • twa,
  • alas,
  • true love,
  • bonnie, dagger,
  • do Lord.
    and so on.... These apply mostly to ballads:
    
• True loves are always either:
  • Missing (gone for seven years)
  • Dead (see Necrophilia element)
  • In disguise
  • Your brother/sister (either known or unknown)
  • False (off chasing/married to another)
    
    If it's a happy ending, it's a very rare folksong...
    
• If your true love is dead, you must:
  • Long to kiss his/her dead lips or other portions of the anatomy (The Tradition of Necrophilia)
  • Never love again
  • Have done her in yourself after spending all night diggin' of her grave
  • Have done him in yourself because he done you wrong
    
• If you are a sailor, and you meet a fair young lady, you will:
  • Wind up with no money and no clothes, wearing a dress (the Transvestite Element)
  • Get laid after pulling her string
  • Acquire a painful and unpleasant social disease
  • Get shot after she dresses in men's clothing and finds you've been false
    (see Transvestite Element)
    
• If you are a young lady, and you meet a sailor, you will:
  • Turn him down because he's dirty
  • Turn him down because you don't recognize him
  • Change your mind when you find out he's got money
  • Change your mind after experiencing his sexual prowess
  • Dress up in man's clothing (the Transvestite Element, yet again)
    
• And LOTS of metaphors!! Refering to various actions, body parts, etc., should be as circumspect as possible. Birds,flowers,alcoholic beverages,(blud red wine, etc)... may be freely substituted for lips, breasts etc.
  
  And for Male Parts...anything is ok as long as it is longer than it is wide.
  
• Women who are NOT active heroines in the song may be given away as prizes to men who achieve some goal...such as killing villians, saving ships, etc.