The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85609 Message #1586751
Posted By: Joe Offer
20-Oct-05 - 12:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Play One More (Ian & Sylvia)
Subject: ADD: Ian & Sylvia: Play One More
OK, so I transcribed it. Must be the Canadian accent or something, because I can't understand a lot of it. I understand enough to have formed the opinion that this is not a Poetic Masterpiece. There are some Ian & Sylvia songs that I like very, very much - is it heresy to say that this and many others are best forgotten? No, I don't like this song. It just sounds dumb to me. On this recording, they sound like the I&S parody people from A Mighty Wind. -Joe Offer-
Play One More (Words and Music by Ian Tyson)
Play one more, and then I'm leavin', boys Pick one more, let the guitar dream. I can't tell you to hold (?), for I do believe She being high-strung like a swallow on the wing, She may be gone.
Oh, this smoky, laughing room just seems to ease my mind Not to mention the few too many that I've had, So I pack my guitar up, for I do believe, She being high-strung and lately feeling bad, She may be gone.
Hmmm, Hmmm, hmmmm.
We ain't been getting' along for a month or more, Yes, I might be better off if she just goes But to get home with a dog-tired and empty room Could I stand the pain, I really don't think so.
So play one more, and then I'm leavin', boys Pick one more, let the guitar dream (???) I can't tell you to hold (?), for I do believe She being high-strung like a swallow on the wing, She may be gone.
Hmmm, Hmmm, hmmmm. Hmmmmm.
From the Ian & Sylvia album Play One More, originally released in 1966, the year Joe Offer graduated from High School.