Mad in White Linen
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About this one, Cat says, "This phrase kept cropping up in the books I was reading. I'd never seen it before--and that doesn't happen to me very much nowadays. It means extra-specially mad, as in 'So-and-so is mad in white linen.' I thought, 'Gee, that's a very evocative phrase.'"
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From "A Breeze Through the CONduit"
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X: 1 T:Mad in White Linen M:3/4 L:1/8 Q:210 C:Words and music by Catherine Faber, (c) 1990 S:From "A Breeze Through the CONduit" A:Filk B:A Breeze Through the CONduit, (c) 1992 by Julia West N:About this one, Cat says, "This phrase kept cropping up in the books I N:was reading. I'd never seen it before--and that doesn't happen to me N:very much nowadays. It means extra-specially mad, as in 'So-and-so is N:mad in white linen.' I thought, 'Gee, that's a very evocative N:phrase.'" D:on the tape, "A Breeze Through the CONduit" W:She's mad in white linen, her form fairly glows, W:Clad in her shift, down the hallways she goes W:Singing, she laughs through the tears that she cries, W:Staring right through you with unseeing eyes. W:Those eyes hold a grief that no joy can dispell. W:They saw her babes slaughtered when Highcastle fell. W:Their murderer, seeking a throne in the strife, W:He took him the woman he'd widowed to wife. K:F "freely" z4 D2|D3 E D2|C D4 E| F2 F2 E2|D4 z2|A3 B A2|G4 F E| F2 G3 F| E4 z2| A B3 A2|G4 F E|F2 F E3|C4 z2|F G3 A2|G2 F2 C2|D2 F E3| E4 "Verse" D2|D3 D2 D| C2 D E3|F2 F2 E2|D4 D2|D2 E F3|E F3 G2|F2 G A3|E4 E2| F2 G A3|G F3 E2|D4 C D| E4 A2|A D4 D|DC A,2 A,2|A, F3 E2|D4 z2||
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