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> Clearly loyalty is not the operative factor here, since
> after all the singer canoodles the woman.
What are you talking about? It's a love song; he's fatally loyal to the woman with whom he is in love, keeps her, their, secret. He'd rather be convicted and hanged himself than wreck her life. She in her veil loved him too and still grieves for him.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net