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Thread #102711 Message #3770017
Posted By: gillymor
02-Feb-16 - 04:09 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Someday Soon (Ian Tyson) lyrics meaning
Subject: ADD Version: Someday Soon Ian and Sylvia
I placed this one in a masculine context (sorry Ian) using some of the Kingston Trio lyrics combined with the Judy Collins lyric scheme:
I'm a young man so you'll know, just turned twenty-one, I come from down in southern Colorado, Just out of the service and looking for my fun. Someday Soon she's going with me, Someday Soon.
Her parents cannot stand me 'cause I ride the rodeo. Her daddy says that I will leave her crying. But that gal would follow me right down the toughest road I know. Someday Soon she's going with me, Someday Soon.
When I come to call her pa ain't got a good word to say. I suppose he's just as wild in his younger days.
So blow you old blue northern, blow me back to her. I'm driving in tonight from California, I love that damned old rodeo and I know that she loves me, Someday Soon going with me, Someday Soon. Someday Soon going with me, Someday Soon.
The words in the last verse of this version seem a little clunky to me, especially the 3d line. If anyone's got any other ideas...
The Judy Collins version of this on her Who Knows Where the Time Goes LP is one of my all time favorite recordings with sparkling contributions from James Burton, Buddy Emmons and Van Dyke Parks. Suzy Boguss does a fine version as well which sounds pretty close to the J.C. arrangement.