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Thread #14320 Message #124177
Posted By: kendall
15-Oct-99 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: What attracts you to a song or tune?
Subject: RE: What attracts you to a song or tune?
Hey Spaw, that has happened to me more often than I can count. Songs such as Phoebe Snow by Utah Phillips. Had that around for 10 years. Now it is on my very short list right up there with The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. Another was Stan Rogers' Front Runner. I loved Walt. Matilda right away, but, the other two needed time to sink in. What attracts me to a song mainly is the feeling that it was written for me, that I was there when it happened. The poem, The Loch Arcre by John Maisfield.. I was there! after all these years I still have a hard time getting through it. These songs have something to say besides yeah baby dont mean maybe.. they require more than a teaspoon full of brains to understand them.