| Donovan – Colours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I sang this song to my wife many years before I met her. When we married I stopped. We have two beautiful children but are no longer married. I am learning it again and like T.S. Eliot seeing it for the first time. I know what the times when I've been low were like but would never compromise on my freedom, married or single.Donovan should come back and put another spell on us all again. We can't be 17 again. | |
| Donovan – Catch The Wind Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Donovan is a bit of a magician but in his youth was shocked by his art teacher coming on to him. I remember this from the mid sixties and pre dates the onslaught of hype we are all weary of these days and therefore believe it. He obviously has had a lot of success with women and I had some myself singing Donovan songs many years ago.I have met people who have met him and they all say what a great guy he is. The Beatles loved his company and you can tell a musician from the company he keeps. The song is both simple and complex. I believe it comes at that crux when a young man realises he is not in fact the answer to every maiden's prayer and has to admit failure in seduction success probably for the first time when it mattered to him. The mark of the man is in how much grace he can summon in response.Grace and beauty...everybody can agree are devoutly to be wished for. Incidentally, many years before MP3s I thought the line went, "How could I miss, well try and catch the wind." It wasn't me improving on the author but a mono crackly miss-hearing. Thank you. There is a God. |
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| Joan Baez – Donna Donna Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The holocaust metaphor is certainly appropriate but not entirely doom laden or even necessary The calf does not have free will. The swallow though free does not choose to be so.The calf's fate is certain for as in Jude the Obscure where in the beautiful pig slaughter episode Hardy shows us Jude's sentimentality and sensitivity, but his practical and down-to-earth wife simply says, "Folk must eat". The Tevia-like wagoner knows this but his view is balanced. If the story is Jewish in essence at all it is in the fact that the calf would be ritually slaughtered and therefore accorded some natural dignity. Our Shalom Aleikom character is being rueful and philosophical. The winds are of course elemental and cannot literally laugh but saying so helps us to feel. | |
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