It's a song of longing and separation. Thinking about old memories in the wild underneath the Northern Cross which is a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus. This song was written originally by housewife from Pittsburgh, Leslie Smith.
Dar Williams about this song: "We came up with the arrangement for this while we were looking after Richard’s eleven-month-old son Martin, dangling our car keys and feeding him cappedpens. We didn’t pick up the guitar much because it proved to be a magnet for little hands and feet. It was then that we learned how lovely and stark Leslie’ssong sounded a capella."
It's a song of longing and separation. Thinking about old memories in the wild underneath the Northern Cross which is a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus. This song was written originally by housewife from Pittsburgh, Leslie Smith.
Dar Williams about this song: "We came up with the arrangement for this while we were looking after Richard’s eleven-month-old son Martin, dangling our car keys and feeding him cappedpens. We didn’t pick up the guitar much because it proved to be a magnet for little hands and feet. It was then that we learned how lovely and stark Leslie’ssong sounded a capella."