I don't get pictures with it, Tam....the monotony of the tune obscures the story for me. It dominates the song, rather than the words. My brain shuts dow and wanders right away. I tried to concentrate on the words but nope, I was watching Richard playing the guitar, his body language, the inside of the marquee, but my attention won't stay on that song. I never even get to the end of it...

It is *nothing* to do with Richard or the way he sings it, and that point I want to get across, it is purely the song/tune itself.


Now when John started singing 'Marks In The Grass', which I think is wonderful I was off and running! The gypsies, their history, the way they live their lives, how they're treated by society, the terrors, the horrors they so often endure, simply for living their lives they way they chose, differently to others...I was looking up all sorts of information, still have it here in my 'favourites' as I was going to write a long piece on it....Very moving and inspirational song.

But 'Famous Flowers', no...the first time I heard it, and that was Martin Carthy's version, with the same tune, I just wanted to escape, had a terrible feeling of claustrophobia, felt like I was being smothered. ("If only!" they all cried in unison) :0)


Thanks, Jim, I'd like to think you're not an airhead either.