Four years on from my initial post, I see the DigiTrad still hasn't amended the "passion's play" line.

I'm not certain whether I am reassured or whether I am disappointed ...

I very much appreciate Thompson's post Date: 12 Dec 04 - 06:43 AM where he posts the words as Kavanagh wrote them.

The verse in question, when laid out like this, makes a great deal of sense. I have only ever heard it sung thus:

"I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign
That's known to the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone"


However, after a minute of mental visualisation, I figured out it could be sung

I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone

I am certain there will be dozens of indignant replies pointing out that of course that is how it should be sung, but I can only repeat that the former is the only way I have ever heard it sung.

Furthermore, that is how Luke Kelly sang it, and he also sang Snuffy's "Godawful"

"When the angel woos PAUSE
The clay he'd lose PAUSE
His wings at the dawn of day "

WIth all due respect to Luke's memory, I feel that if were around nowadays to read this thread, he might rethink his interpretation.