Songs That Tell Stories

thanks, edgar. you too.

the baron ~ john cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUFOsqJ8-0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMUqhofLGw

Maura O'Connell singing Blue Train

wow, I'd like to have been sitting in that living room, pom/

There are many versions of this beautiful song but this is among the most honest with the best character development, sung by the great Christy Moore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqNXiTV53HA&feature=PlayList&p=F3C7392F8468237A&index=34&playnext=15&playnext_from=PL

it annoyingly breaks off, so you will need this as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv4nt0rY-Kg&feature=PlayList&p=F3C7392F8468237A&index=35&playnext=16&playnext_from=PL

The Girl from the Hiring Fair by Ralph McTell is a wonderful story . . . I can picture a film being made from it, set in the early 20th C. McTell's lovely version was removed from youtube . . . but here is Fairport's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmyKFmMzPs&feature=PlayList&p=749AFE60DEAD3B8C&index=0&playnext=1

A pair of great songs that tell the stories of two Western women, written by Canadians, are Someday Soon by Ian Tyson and Lies by Stan Rogers. The first woman is the girlfriend of a rodeo rider while the second, in the Rogers song, is a middle aged ranch wife, who knows her mirror is telling lies of coming age because she can see how her husband loves the maiden she once was.

I like to think of these as a pair, the front and middle of a novel of a woman living on the prairie in the early 20th C.

good stuff POM

Thanks, POM. I did not intend to ignore you. Just lost track of the thread.

Thanks. I heard both today and was really pleased to remember them.

I listened to this one again. It really is nice

You made me think of another Tyson song, Summer Wages. A quintessential "Canuck" song with a metaphorical title.



Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer
For you know the odds won't ride with you
Never leave your woman alone when your friends around to steal her
Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages.

And we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver
And the woman that I love is living there
It's been six long months and more since I've seen her
May be gambled and gone like summer wages.

In all of the beer bars all down along Main Street
The dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor
All the big stands of timber just waitin' for falling
And the hookers waitin' watchfully as they sit there by the door.

So, I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes on
Which I swore I would never do again
Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand a waitin'
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages.

That's a song that I always liked. I may have heard it first from the Chad Mitchell Trio . . . but, I can't be certain. Tyson has written some great songs.

Michael Jackson Will You Be There

I'm glad to see you folks have carried on this thread. I enjoyed your contributions very much.

Music is essential. Sound recording is one of mankind's greatest inventions.

That's a great song. Here is one that seems appropriate for the times.

I love Michigan songs and I cried the first time I heard this because I knew so many of the places mentioned in the song. Lightfoot lived in Detroit for a time which is probably what inspired him.

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