Amy Nixon's Blog – December 2009 Archive (1)

The thing I love most about this song, Is what it's about. This "childrens rhyming game" is based on the mental institutions of the Victorian era and what used to happen in them. The song is about a girl named Lucy, who as a young girl got placed in an asylum and the song follows the story of the asylum and all the things that used to happen, that would be extremely illegal if they happened nowadays. The song in general is hard to understand, where the lines end, they would begin on the next… Continue