The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50913   Message #773662
Posted By: Kim C
29-Aug-02 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Your New Songs
Subject: RE: Your New Songs
Wind and Rain is pretty good for that - the one sister kills the other sister (over a man, naturally) by pushing her into the river. She washes up on the river bank, then along comes a fiddler and builds a violin out of her bones, and strings the bow with her hair.

"But the only tune that fiddle would play
Was oh, the dreadful wind and rain..."

Gillian Welch does a nice version on the first Songcatcher CD. It's not what I would call musically challenging, really, but it sounds good. :-)