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| Buffy Sainte-Marie – The Vampire Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The earlier comment from threedwolfscream supplies the missing line: Someone stal and old"". \n\nGeniulyrics shows the missing line, Azlyrics (I think -- first place I looked, and AZlyrics is my usual weapon of choice for reference during performance - less advertising clutter or post download surgery. |
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| Buffy Sainte-Marie – The Vampire Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Found this song on Illuminations which happened to be the first Buffy St Marie Album I discovered. 1 missing lines just before As I looked into his eyes no reflection came and I gave him bedding\n\nThis album actually has 2 vampire songs according to Ms. Sainte Marie: she subtitles Reynardine "A Vampire Legend". |
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| Fairport Convention – The Deserter Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Nothing to add re MEANING, which is pretty straight forward I see this was written by an eminent member of Fairport Convention (are there any NON eminent members? But this came from a major contributor.\n\nIt manages to catch the FEEL, sort of, of a Victorian era patriotic song - and the quibbles I have may have been to make the song flow properly. \n\nUmm, the "merciful" first sentence, 303 lashes if I underetand the words correctly, basically amounts to bring whipped to death! I am reminded of the very graphic flogging of Jesus in "the passion of the Christ" - also a pretty gruesome "merciful" sentence, which could only inflame the Sanhedrin\'s conservative wing more!\n\nRunning home to his sweetheart? Why not leave glowing footprints! THe man\'s home town would be the first place they\'d look!\n\nBut it\'s with the deus ex machina from Prince Albert that this song sort of wanders into the science fiction realm! Spare the kid, he\'ll get inspired and become a good little soldier! Not a likely thought to occur to any aristocrat or military commander of that era! Ran away twice? Trying to reform this coward would be a waste of time! Perhaps Albert\'s intervention might inspire significant personal loyalty, though "prince\'s bodyguard" seems an unlikely assignment for a person with this fellow\'s record! \n\nAnd then there\'s a chain of command issue - Prince Albert had no formal authority over the army - he was a pretty good guy and a canny politician to all accounts, and hey - being nice to your theoretical boss\'s husband (at that point Victiria wasn\'t in charge either, and the prince schooled her on that issue when she locked horns with a government she didn\'t like after losing the PM she loved) probably wouldn\'t hurt one\'s prospects unless the Queen\'s own self had a hissy fit about Albert\'s interference unlikely since the guy had oodles or MORAL authority and commended a lot of respect. Albert Art\'s involvement might have been consistent with his well known thoughts about slavery in the Empire, but soldiers have always been a different case.\n\nWell. Enough ravings about minutiae. Regardless of any quibbles re the narrative, I love this song. I regard Liege and Lief as a wall to wall masterpiece, vocally and instrumentally! Bless those who created it, including the lady who tragically died of a fall just a few years later - what a voice!\n\nBye now... |
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