{"id":433,"date":"2021-12-29T21:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartburnwomen.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2022-03-06T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T11:31:17","slug":"frankie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartburnwomen.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;439&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<article id=\"arbitrary-instance-69e5ab34baf33\" class=\"iron_widget_radio\"><div class=\"iron-audioplayer  sr_player_on_artwork playlist_has_no_ctas skin_floated\" id=\"arbitrary-instance-69e5ab34baf33-cbceb742b5\" data-id=\"arbitrary-instance-69e5ab34baf33\" data-track-sw-cursor=\"\" data-lazyload=\"\" data-albums=\"433\" data-category=\"\" 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I\u00a0<\/em><em>knew I wanted to find the back story for the serving maid who\u00a0<\/em><em>tells Lady Margaret of how to find the herbs to bring on an\u00a0<\/em><em>abortion (old ballads can tackle subjects eg. abortion and\u00a0<\/em><em>incest, that are rarely sung of in modern songs). I then went\u00a0<\/em><em>overnight on a boat to Holland and was in the bar, when a group of\u00a0<\/em><em>soldiers arrived. I was close enough to hear their\u00a0<\/em><em>conversations which so incensed me that my fury went straight\u00a0<\/em><em>into the writing of &#8216;The song of the Second Serving Maid&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0It is\u00a0<\/em><em>uncompromisingly furious and knowing what has happened to so many\u00a0<\/em><em>women due to the misogyny and double standards still prevailing, I\u00a0<\/em><em>stand by that anger still.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em>Frankie Armstrong<\/div>\n<p><strong>Song of the Second Serving Maid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Frankie Armstrong: vocal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jon Gillaspie: piano<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>It was a long time ago and not very far away,<\/p>\n<p>I remember like it was yesterday;<\/p>\n<p>I fell in with a soldier that barracked in our town,<\/p>\n<p>No wonder I remember with the price I had to pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He came into the bar I worked one cold December night;<\/p>\n<p>He was strong and tall and helped break up a fight,<\/p>\n<p>I bathed his bleeding face, and bandaged up his hand,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d done more for him that that before the next dawn&#8217;s light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the way of young soldiers, in three weeks he was gone,<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t say where to, just said, \u201cIt won&#8217;t be long&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Course I&#8217;ve never seen him since, or heard from him again,<\/p>\n<p>And just like the old songs say, it turned out he&#8217;d done me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d started to get worried before he went away,<\/p>\n<p>Oh God, I remember counting off each day!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d cursed this bleeding many a time, now I longed to see It flo<\/p>\n<p>But when six weeks were over, what use was it to pray?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t tell my parents, so I went and told a friend;<\/p>\n<p>She took me to a woman who lived beyond Town&#8217;s End.<\/p>\n<p>She had jars of herbs and roots and leaves, she knew why I had come<\/p>\n<p>So I bought what she advised with what little I&#8217;d to spend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some people say, what I did it was a sin,<\/p>\n<p>I should have had the child, not turned to rue and gin,<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s mostly men and ministers that preach to me that way,<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d like to know what they know of the anguish I was in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a long time ago, I wasn&#8217;t much more than a child;<\/p>\n<p>The world would have frowned, though the baby might have smiled;<\/p>\n<p>Sure sometimes I feel sad for the child that might have been,<\/p>\n<p>But I never could have raised it, I was far too young and wild.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I look on it now, I feel nothing but relief,<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s a woman&#8217;s feelings &#8216;gainst a man-made belief?<\/p>\n<p>Sure I was young and foolish &#8211; I&#8217;ve been more careful since &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>But should a night-time&#8217;s pleasure bring a lifetime&#8217;s grief?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for the soldier, I wonder what&#8217;s become of him?<\/p>\n<p>How many has he killed in the name of King and kin?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be blessed by bishops, maybe medals brooch his chest,<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ve the nerve to tell me that they&#8217;re the ones know best,<\/p>\n<p>That I&#8217;m the one to bear the sin,<\/p>\n<p>My soul will never rest?<\/p>\n<p>I ask whose world we live in,<\/p>\n<p>Where we women are but guests?<\/p>\n<p>So sometimes we need rue and gin<\/p>\n<p>While men get by with jests&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve wounded, bled and maimed ourselves<\/p>\n<p>While men they joke and jest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve hurt and drowned and hung ourselves<\/p>\n<p>While men go with jests&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words &amp; Music:<\/p>\n<h4>Frankie Armstrong<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;439&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A history of the song: &#8220;I was in the process of writing songs around the images and\u00a0situations from the great ballad of transformation, Tam Lin. 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