For two days now I've had the aeons-old Devonshire folk song Widecombe Fair going through my head on a never-ending loop. It's one of the best known of British folk songs; I'm fairly sure I was first exposed to it in primary school.
Has nobody noticed that it ends with the death of a horse through callous mistreatment? So why is it so popular? Why is it taught to school children? Do people think that working a horse to death is funny or something? And why has it been going round and round in my head for two days?
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