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Thread #99094   Message #1973118
Posted By: Elaine Green
19-Feb-07 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: wild mountain thyme
Subject: RE: wild mountain thyme
Hahaha! Purple has always been kind of hazy for me. But I remember it vividly. 60's heritage, I guess!

Anyway, I've always thought this was one of the best of the courtship/biological imperative songs, capturing that drive of youth more eloquently perhaps than anything except Steve Earle's "Galway Girl." I mean, most of us do indeed "find another" if that first one "cannot go." This is a lovely, lovely song, and that moving on makes it all the more beautiful somehow.