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09 Jul 19 - 02:40 PM (#4000040) Subject: saddest lines in song From: Andy7 Which lines from songs are among the saddest? One that I would suggest is this, from 'Changes' by Phil Ochs: "And I'll kiss you one more time, And leave you on the rolling river shores of changes." And another, from Don McLean's 'Empty Chairs': "And I wonder if you know, That I never understood, That although you said you'd go, Until you did, I never thought you would." And, from 'Softly as I leave You', sung by Matt Munro and Frank Sinatra (and others): "Softly, I will leave you, softly, For my heart would break, if you should wake and see me go." |
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09 Jul 19 - 02:47 PM (#4000041) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: WalkaboutsVerse In the English tradition, at least, couples are (nearly) always parted for 7 long years. |
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09 Jul 19 - 02:54 PM (#4000042) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: JHW Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met-or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. |
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09 Jul 19 - 03:52 PM (#4000053) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Hamish A bit left-field, this but... From Dr Hook's Sylvia's Mother: "And, sir, won't you call back again?" She doesn't even seem to know his name!! |
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09 Jul 19 - 05:51 PM (#4000062) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST Horrific and sad The Death of Queen Jane The doctor was called for and set by her bedside: 'What aileth thee, my ladie, thine eyes seem so red?' 'O doctor, O doctor, will ye do this for me, To rip up my two sides and save my babie?' 'Queen Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, that's the thing I'll neer do, To rip up your two sides to save your babie:' Queen Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, traveld six weeks and more, Till women and midwives had quite gien her oer. |
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09 Jul 19 - 05:56 PM (#4000064) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Big Al Whittle One man went to mow a meadow. (you have to change chords on the word 'meadow'. With this, there is no compromise). |
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09 Jul 19 - 06:05 PM (#4000069) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Joe_F Life is a toil and love is a trouble, Beauty will fade and riches will flee, Pleasures will dwindle and prices will double, And nothing is as I should wish it to be. |
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09 Jul 19 - 06:41 PM (#4000079) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Gallus Moll From: Highland Mary by Robert Burns - But Oh, fell death's untimely frost That nipt my flower sae early! Now green's the sod and cauld's the clay That wraps my Highland Mary. Oh pale pale now those rosy lips I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly! And clos'd for aye the sparkling glance That dwalt on me sae kindly! And mouldering noo in silent dust The heart that loo'd me dearly! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary |
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09 Jul 19 - 07:04 PM (#4000080) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Bizibod from Kate Rusby's "My young Man" My young man, where's he gone? Once in his eyes my whole world shone Now my young man he looks away. Man and wife we used to be Now he's like a child upon my knee And in my arms I help my young man through the day. Never got through the whole song yet because it makes me cry every time.( Singing for myself, not in public.) Is there anyone, I wonder, apart from Kate Rusby, who can can actually do that ?! |
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09 Jul 19 - 07:59 PM (#4000088) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Wireharp "I am stretched out on your grave ad I will lie there forever, if your hand were still in mine I know we would not sever." |
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10 Jul 19 - 02:10 AM (#4000101) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Dave Hanson From the newer version second version of The Flowers of the Forest from The Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Borders. first verse and las verse I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling, I've tasted her favours and felt her decay, Sweet is her blessing and kind her caressing, But soon it is fled - it is fled far away. ********** O fickle fortune ! why this cruel sporting, Why thus perplex us poor sons of a day ? Thy frowns cannot fear me, thy smiles cannot cheer me, Since the flowers of the forest are a' wede away |
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10 Jul 19 - 03:27 AM (#4000118) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Jerry First it bent and then it broke Just like the love ‘twixt you and me. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could simply sit in that room again I won’t see the golden of the sun, when I’m gone |
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10 Jul 19 - 03:51 AM (#4000120) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Fasteddy Third verse of Eric Bogle's All the fine young men....For many of those fine young men,all the wars are over. They've found their peace,it's peace that lasts forever. When the call comes again,they will not answer. They're just forgotten bones lying far from their homes,as forgotten as the cause for which they died. |
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10 Jul 19 - 03:56 AM (#4000122) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,LynnH Phil Ochs again - "Now there are no more songs..............." |
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10 Jul 19 - 11:01 AM (#4000128) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,henryp He ran out to the lot, and climbed into his rig And drove off without tightening down It was a terrible thing, to see what remained Of the rig that poor Danny was in And he was so young and on a ten city run In love with a truck stop girl Truck Stop Girl by Lowell George/Bill Payne |
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10 Jul 19 - 11:58 AM (#4000149) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: beardedbruce Now he walks down the street in the evening And he stops by the old candy store And I somehow believe he's believin' He's holdin' her hand like before For he feels all her love walkin' with him And he smiles at the things she might say Then the old man walks up to the hill top And gives her a daisy a day CHORUS I'll give you a daisy a day dear I'll give you a daisy a day I'll love you until the rivers run still And the four winds we know blow away |
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10 Jul 19 - 12:14 PM (#4000151) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Megan L "These little islands shook to their foundations And no-one really knew quite what to say They told us they were brave and gallant people Those men who seemed so very far away" From Ivan Dever's Brave souls about the longhope lifeboat disaster |
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10 Jul 19 - 12:15 PM (#4000152) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: ChanteyLass Both of these are from The Dutchman by Michael Peter Smith He's mad as he can be but Margaret only sees that sometimes Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long ago I used to be a young man And dear Margaret remembers that for me I may post others as I rememeber them. |
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10 Jul 19 - 12:22 PM (#4000153) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,HiLo When harm is done No love can be won, I know it happens frequently, What I can't understand, Please God hold my hand; Is why it should have happened to me. Heart Like A Wheel by Kate McGarrigle |
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10 Jul 19 - 01:57 PM (#4000178) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,ottery And you will marry a proud gunner And a right guid gunner I'm sure he'll be For with the first shot that e'er he fires He'll kill baith my bonny son and me. from The Silkie of Sule Skerry as sung by The Corries |
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10 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM (#4000181) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Dave the Gnome Surely there are some C&W songs that will beat all these! How about "It's been lonesome in the saddle since my horse dropped dead"? |
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10 Jul 19 - 02:26 PM (#4000190) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Geordie boy ..and in her eyes you see nothing... |
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10 Jul 19 - 02:49 PM (#4000197) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Jesse Bassfeller It takes a few lines to really set it up, IMHO, and personal choices that end up with tragic results: Empty winds, you hear her say Fickle winds, they shift away And I don't need him in my life for I can fly . But who will walk her tonight out in the heather? And who will laugh away the teardrop in her eye? - Bill Staines But I was too free with all of the women, And drink it was my friend on every occasion, Her father he wants for riches and plenty, And the man who could endow them with name and fortune, Where all that I possess is my love for that wild mountain maid. - Al O'Donnell? Richard Thompson always does it for me when he sings: See that lover standing Staring at the ground He's looking for the real thing Lies were all he found You can get the real thing It will only cost a pound Down where the drunkards roll Down where the drunkards roll Either than or: Opps, I did again, I played with your heart, got lost in the game... |
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10 Jul 19 - 03:00 PM (#4000201) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: gillymor An empty bottle, a broken heart, And you're still on my mind. -Luke McDaniel Although I can't dismiss, the memory of her kiss, I guess she's not for me. -Ira Gershwin Hear the lonesome whippoorwill, He sounds too blue to fly, That means he's lost the will to live, And I'm so lonesome I could cry. -Hank Williams The dust that Pancho bit down south, Ended up in Lefty's mouth. -Townes Van Zandt Though they're gone the scenes were there, Like broken dreams as in a mirror, Made by the moon upon the water, And our love was never stronger, But the picture was broken, By the waves we left behind. At midnight on the water, Once upon a time. - I forgot who put the words to that wonderful tune. |
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10 Jul 19 - 03:13 PM (#4000203) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: meself There's a bridle hanging on the wall; There's a saddle in the empty stall .................................... |
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10 Jul 19 - 04:38 PM (#4000218) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: motmeister Mickey Newbury’s “She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye”: Babys packed her soft things and shes left me I just know she didn't mean to make me cry Its not her heart, Lord its her mind She didn't mean to be unkind Why she even woke me up to say goodbye |
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10 Jul 19 - 04:51 PM (#4000221) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Roger Dave the Gnome. I've just picked myself up off the floor!! Best laugh I've had in yonks!! Roger |
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10 Jul 19 - 07:28 PM (#4000248) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Stewie Adoptee to unknown birth mother: On the day when I was new You held me once, no one held you I think of you as a mourning dove That only flew on wings of love From Steven Sellors' "Mourning Dove" as sung by Gordon Bok. --Stewie. |
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10 Jul 19 - 11:34 PM (#4000274) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: mg donald was the bravest man and donald he was mine |
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11 Jul 19 - 05:20 AM (#4000298) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Jerry We lost Davy in the Korean War And we still don’t know what for Don’t matter any more.... In fact, the whole of that song. |
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11 Jul 19 - 05:47 AM (#4000302) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,henryp But it wasn’t eyes of blue, nor that hair as pale as foam It was the gansey that his mother made that brought young Davy home Davy Cross by Paul Davenport |
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11 Jul 19 - 05:52 AM (#4000305) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,akenaton Hamish, I agree with your comment, that song contains many sad and cruel? little twists....I'm fascinated by the song, the live version from "Shel's houseboat" is especially fine. |
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11 Jul 19 - 05:55 AM (#4000307) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Knockroe "A change in the weather is known to be extreme But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream? I'm going out of my mind, oh With a pain that stops and starts Like a corkscrew to my heart Ever since we've been apart" Big Girl Now, Bob |
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11 Jul 19 - 06:16 AM (#4000308) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,henryp If the Riley boys were here they would tell us not to cry Dry your eyes they’d say There’s work to do tomorrow If the Riley boys were here we’d hold fast another year and be thankful for what mercy we could borrow The Riley Boys by Carol Denney May 15, 2004 |
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11 Jul 19 - 05:06 PM (#4000377) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: The Sandman I couldn't heat a pot of tea or keep me trousers dry, And me dog shat in me tucker-box five miles from Gundagai. |
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11 Jul 19 - 05:34 PM (#4000381) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,akenaton Mary Chapin |
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12 Jul 19 - 05:14 AM (#4000417) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,henryp Let's overlook Dick's post and move on. |
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12 Jul 19 - 05:46 AM (#4000419) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: gillymor I liked Dick's contribution. This is probably the saddest song I know: "Victor Jara" Victor Jara of Chile Lived like a shooting star He fought for the people of Chile With his songs and his guitar His hands were gentle, his hands were strong Victor Jara was a peasant Who worked from a few years old He sat upon his father's plow And watched the earth unfold His hands were gentle, his hands were strong Now when the neighbors had a wedding Or one of their children died His mother sang all night for them With Victor by her side His hands were gentle, his hands were strong He grew up to be a fighter Against the people's wrongs He listened to their grief and joy And turned them into songs His hands were gentle, his hands were strong He sang about the copper miners And those who worked the land He sang about the factory workers And they knew he was their man His hands were gentle, his hands were strong He campaigned for Allende Working night and day He sang, "take hold of your brother's hand The future begins today" His hands were gentle, his hands were strong Then the generals seized Chile They arrested Victor then They caged him in a stadium With five thousand frightened men His hands were gentle, his hands were strong Victor stood in the stadium His voice was brave and strong And he sang for his fellow prisoners 'Til the guards cut short his song His hands were gentle, his hands were strong They broke the bones in both his hands They beat him on the head They tore him with electric shocks And then they shot him dead His hands were gentle, his hands were strong Victor Jara of Chile Lived like a shooting star And he fought for the people of Chile With his songs and his guitar His hands were gentle, his hands were strong His hands were gentle, his hands were strong |
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12 Jul 19 - 07:25 AM (#4000429) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Ged Fox "I broke her heart, pet, after the ball" "I'm alone - alone - alone" Trite words enough, but with the music... |
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12 Jul 19 - 08:49 AM (#4000446) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,fred sprott I've practiced this one all day- not sure if I've got it yet but I'll have a go....... |
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12 Jul 19 - 12:58 PM (#4000491) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Ebbie "... he answered when he got the call Wrapped himself in Death and praised Allah Fat man in a Mercedes drove him to the door Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war...." |
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12 Jul 19 - 05:23 PM (#4000545) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: John MacKenzie I ain't saying you treated me unkind You could have done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's all right. Are you going away with no word of farewell Will there be not a trace left behind I could have loved you better,didn't mean to be unkind You know that was the last thing on my mind. She'd pass for twenty-nine but for her eyes But winter lines are telling wicked lies All lies All those lines are telling wicked lies Lies all lies Too many lines there in that face; Too many to erase or disguise; They must be telling lies |
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12 Jul 19 - 05:47 PM (#4000548) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Joe_F And overside I heard him call my name. |
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14 Jul 19 - 03:51 PM (#4000732) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: lefthanded guitar Several come to mind: A Long Road Home - Mickey Newbury: @They tell me old Bud Rose hocked his guitar Bought a ticket to Nashville to become a big star Now he works on a bottle and he lives in a car; Do you still have your dreams? " Valley of Strathmore - "If time were a thing man could buy All the money I have in store I would give for one night by her side In the valley of Strathmore" Bury me Not on the Lone Prairie : "We paid no heed to his dying prayer....in a narrow grave six by three We buried him there on the lone prairie" Hank Wilkiams: "I' m so lonesome I could cry" Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan: "Now is the time for your tears. " The Valley of Strathmore If time were a thing man could buy All the money I have in store I would give for one day at her side In the valley of Strathmore |
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14 Jul 19 - 03:53 PM (#4000734) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: lefthanded guitar Sorry for repeat of Strathmore verse, is there any way to edit a post after it's posted ? |
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15 Jul 19 - 02:21 AM (#4000770) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,henryp Sorry, but once it's gone, it's gone. We've all found out the hard way! |
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15 Jul 19 - 09:01 AM (#4000805) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST "Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good, so I never tried" Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen. |
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15 Jul 19 - 03:14 PM (#4000864) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Tattie Bogle A very good description of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Tom Paxton's song, My Son John": the term probably hadn't even been invented then, though there was "shell shock" after WW1. "He went up to his room and he closed the door, My son John, my son John" |
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15 Jul 19 - 06:35 PM (#4000878) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST Oh my bonny lass, what if ye came tae see me one last time, And ye took my hand in yours again, as ye did in auld lang syne. Ye once warmed my hands 'tween your wi' love, tae keep the cauld at bay, But there's nae warmin' in the hale world, that will warm these hands one day. Fist verse from a song I wrote called, "Too Late." |
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15 Jul 19 - 06:38 PM (#4000879) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: BobKnight Sorry, I didn't realise I wasn't logged in. That was me with "Too Late," above. |
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15 Jul 19 - 06:46 PM (#4000880) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: BobKnight Or how about? "I don't have good days anymore, Every day is a bad day, but some hurt a whole lot more. And even my best days are bad, Oh how I wish that we could get back to the happiness we had." Or? It's the sweet memories that break the loving heart, The way you smiled for me that made me love you from the start. But there's no comfort when I think of you and me, 'Cos what hurts most are those sweet memories. Had enough? Plenty more of those miserable weepies. haha |
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15 Jul 19 - 07:51 PM (#4000892) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Mrrzy For she's dead in the coach ahead. |
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17 Jul 19 - 05:49 PM (#4001061) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,TomC Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet through his brain. (And) We buried them together as the snow began to fall. - Darcy Farrow by Gillette and Campbell We filled our home with joys untold, but now the rooms are empty and cold. - My old House by me |
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17 Jul 19 - 06:25 PM (#4001062) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Joe_F Shake hands as faces blur. |
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18 Jul 19 - 01:32 PM (#4001096) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,IanA I ain't got nobody, Ain't nobody got me. I'm just like a little apple, hangin' on a tree. Don't nobody want me I can plainly see. I ain't got nobody, Ain't nobody got me. |
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18 Jul 19 - 05:10 PM (#4001141) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,silver I didn't know there were worse things than dying (The Band played Waltzing Matilda, by Eric Bogle) |
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19 Jul 19 - 01:30 PM (#4001208) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,LynnH Almost all of the last verse of '1952 Vincent Black Lightning', Richard Thompson. |
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20 Jul 19 - 12:32 AM (#4001245) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,paperback “Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted... They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.” |
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21 Jul 19 - 03:03 AM (#4001337) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Thompson Tá ceo ag titim ar chraobh ann Ná glanann le greín ná lá Tá smúit ag titim ón spéir ann 'S a cuid uisce go léir ag trá Níl coll, níl cuileann, níl caor ann Ach clocha 'gus maolchlochán Páirc na foraoise gan chraobh ann Is d'imigh an géim chun fáin |
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21 Jul 19 - 05:09 AM (#4001353) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Daniel Kelly I put the lyrics to this song up a few months ago, these lines are from 'William Conquest Turland' by John Warner: I dug two graves beside the creek where old Dick's bridge now stands, And I can still feel Hannah's grasp a-trembling in my hands, The road ahead holds children, home and labour, land and friend, But I held Hannah, sobbing hard, where one road found its end. |
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21 Jul 19 - 05:33 AM (#4001360) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: BobKnight You have to feel sorry for these young lovers in Bruce Springsteen's "The River." "No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle, No flowers, no wedding dress." |
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21 Jul 19 - 06:06 AM (#4001367) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Rob Naylor "Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind...………." |
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21 Jul 19 - 06:41 AM (#4001376) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Steve Shaw But now alas the tide has changed My love she has gone from me And winter's frost has touched my heart And put a blight upon me Creeping fog is on the river, Flow sweet river, flow Sun and moon and stars gone with her, Sweet Thames flow softly |
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21 Jul 19 - 07:05 AM (#4001380) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Daniel Kelly Steve, Richard Thompson sure has a gift for the melancholy. |
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21 Jul 19 - 10:27 AM (#4001398) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Steve Shaw Well he surely does, but that song is by Ewan... Here's one of my favourite sad Richard bits: Then they dragged her away It was handcuffs this time She said "my good man are you out of your mind? Don't you know that we're married? See, I'm wearing his ring. From Galway to Graceland to be with the King. I come from Galway to Graceland to be with the King." |
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21 Jul 19 - 01:27 PM (#4001439) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,HiLo Great choice Steve, I thought of this song when this thread began. One of the saddest songs ever...right up there with John Prines' Angel from Montgomery... How the hell can a person Go out in the mornin, Come home in the evenin and have nothin to say. Hope I got that right ! |
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21 Jul 19 - 01:56 PM (#4001442) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Thompson Many's the girl is singing this song nowadays: "What's the matter with you, me lass, and where's your dashing Jimmy?" "Them soldier boys have picked him up and taken him far from me Last payday, he went into town and them red-coated fellows Enticed him in and made him drunk, and he'd better gone to the gallows |
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22 Jul 19 - 02:09 PM (#4001603) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST This whole song.... Stan Rogers - First Christmas This day a year ago, he was rolling in the snow With a younger brother in his father's yard Christmas break, a time for touching home, The heart of all he'd known And leaving was so hard Three thousand miles away, Now he's working Christmas Day Making double time for the minding of the store Well he always said, he'd make it on his own He's spending Christmas Eve alone First Christmas away from home She's standing by the train station, Pan-handling for change Four more dollars buys a decent meal and a room Looks like the Sally Ann place after all, In a crowded sleeping hall That echoes like a tomb But it's warm and clean and free, And there are worse places to be At least it means no beating from her Dad And if she cries because it's Christmas Day She hopes that it won't show First Christmas away from home In the apartment stands a tree, And it looks so small and bare Not like it was meant to be, Golden angel on the top It's not that same old silver star, You wanted for your own First Christmas away from home In the morning, they get prayers, Then it's crafts and tea downstairs Then another meal back in his little room Hoping maybe that "the boys" Will think to phone before the day is gone Well, it's best they do it soon When the "old girl" passed away, He fell apart more every day Each had always kept the other pretty well But the kids all said the nursing home was best Cause he couldn't live alone First Christmas away from home In the common room they've got the biggest tree And it's huge and cold and lifeless Not like it ought to be, And the lit-up flashing Santa Claus on top It's not that same old silver star, You once made for your own First Christmas away from home |
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22 Jul 19 - 03:12 PM (#4001611) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: FreddyHeadey A half empty washing line serves to remind that you're fallen and always standing in line. Standing In Line - Lester Simpson sadder still when sung by June Tabor. ~~~~~~~~~~ I live in the shadow of a hill A hill of little shoes Hill of Little Shoes - Pete Atkin / Clive James and nearly every line in the song : thread.cfm?threadid=73979#3906959 |
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22 Jul 19 - 05:40 PM (#4001629) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Joe_F And the keepsakes locked in the chests That were sold at the auction Down at the Sailors' Rest. |
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23 Jul 19 - 01:56 AM (#4001663) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,GUEST She was a rare thing, fine as a bee’s wing And I miss her more than ever words could say If I could just taste all of her wildness now If I could hold her in my arms today… I wouldn’t want her any other way. Yestre’en the queen had four Marys—the nicht she’ll hae but three; There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seton, and Mary Carmichael and me. It’s often hae I dressed my queen, and put gold in her hair, But noo I’ve gotten for my reward the gallows tae be my share. |
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23 Jul 19 - 06:05 PM (#4001824) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Tony Rees From The Maid of Coolmore The Bothy Band version: The first time that I met her, she passed me by The next time that I met her, she bade me good-bye But the last time that I met her, she grieved my heart sore For she sailed down Lough Foyle and away from Coolmore ... not having a very good time at all! |
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23 Jul 19 - 06:11 PM (#4001825) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Tony Rees Half surprised no-one has already called up Crazy Man Michael (that Thompson fellow again...) - last verse goes Crazy Man Michael he wanders and calls And talks to the night and the day-o But his eyes they are sane and his speech it is plain And he longs to be far away-o Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes And asks of the wild wolves their pardon For his true love is flown and into every flower grown And he must be keeper of the garden But the whole song is pretty sad. Especially as sung on the original, by Sandy Denny :) - Tony |
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23 Jul 19 - 06:50 PM (#4001828) Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Stewie From Mark Germino's moving song about suicide - 'Black Angel Cure': Now I shoot the darkness down, I puncture what is swollen And sometimes I’ll tear it down, just to keep it rolling But picture some years gone by and someone who can’t do that Then step back and tell me how you get somebody through that When they know that soon the axe will fall Judge not somebody hopeless Or anyone who can’t quite focus Kill what you can that is not pure But don’t take the black angel cure --Stewie. |