~PETER,PAUL AND MARY~ "The Raven"

~ THREE RAVENS ~ sung by Peter, Paul and Mary.

"The Three Ravens" is an English language folk ballad printed in the song book 'Melismata' and published in 1611, but perhaps earlier.

"The ballad takes the form of three scavenger birds conversing about where and what they should eat. One mentions a recently slain knight, but they find he is guarded by his loyal hawks and hounds. Furthermore "a fallow doe" an abvious metaphor for the knight`s pregnant ("as great with young as she may go") lover or mistress comes to his body, kisses his wounds, and bears him away and buries him, leaving the ravens without an apparent meal. The narrator, however, gradually departs from the ravens point of view ending with "God send every gentleman/such haukes, such hounds, and such "a loved one" -- the comment of the narrator on the action, rather than the ravens whose discussion he earlier discribes."

"Alternately, the lyrics may simply ascribe the apparent narrator`s sentiments to the raven(s) which given the previous personification of the raven(s) seems just as possible."

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