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Thread #73011 Message #1265008
Posted By: Little Hawk
05-Sep-04 - 10:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Must I Be Bound
Subject: Lyr Add: MUST I GO BOUND (from Buffy Sainte-Marie)
The words I've heard Buffy Sainte-Marie sing are:
Must I go bound and you so free? Must I love one who doesn't love me? Must I be born with so little art As to love the one who would break my heart?
I leaned my back up against some oak I thought it was a trusty tree But first it bent and then it broke And so did my false love to me
I put my finger to a bush I thought I'd find a lovely flower The thorn it pierced me to the touch And so I left the rose behind
There is a ship that sails the sea It's loaded down as deep can be But not so deep as the love I am in I know not 'ere I sink or swim
Oh love be gentle and love be kind Gay as a jewel when first it's new But love grows old and then grows cold And fades away like the morning dew
Must I go bound and you so free? Must I love one who doesn't love me? Must I be born with so little art As to love the one who would break my heart?
And those, I think, are the best lyrics of all for this song, specially the line "must I be born with so little art?" (way better than "childish part") They have a more universal appeal which I think practically anyone, male or female, who has loved well but not so wisely could relate to.