Dude, that does read like the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song, or at least one he'd sing. Wow. So you are Russian, eh? Do you live there now?

So what happened to the young man who disobeyed his mother to go battle the dragon?

pinhedz wrote:

OK--It's something like this. In fact, it's a lot like this: Black Raven Black raven, black raven, Why are you circling over me? You will not get me today, I do not belong to you. I see you spreading out your claws, There above my head. Do you think that I'm your prey? Black raven, you are wrong. Fly away to my home, Take a message to my mother, Please do me the favor and tell her That I died for our homeland. Take this bloodstained bandana To my own true love, Tell her that she is free now, Say that I've married another. A swift arrow sealed my fate, In the midst of my last battle. I see now the end is near, My bride is the angel of death.

I'm not Russian, but I used to spend a lot of time there.

The young man who disobeyed his mother will have lots of adventures (it's a long song) and will come home with the gold and a princess (which is what his mother really wanted all along).

There used to be story tellers that would sing these long songs about knights and dragons and gnomes and magic fish and firebirds. Some of the songs were epics, others were obscene. In the 17th century the clergy tried to eradicate them, because the songs were pagan.

In this scene, a singer gets busted singing an obscene song. When we see him next, his tongue will be cut out:

Thadd--Are you the Thaddeus Ramone that knows Clementine "Ditty" Blair, Venom (Henrietta Johnson) and Absinthe (Gertrude Albion)?

Clementine claims that you're a "punk violinist," but her story could be fiction. Or else it might be true, and she's pretending it's fiction (I do that all the time).