This song is a retelling of the Carter Family song "Are You Tired Of Me My Darling?" with new music and lyrics. The Carter Family was a pioneering early group in the genre that would eventually become country music, and Maybelle Carter was a founding member and eventually the matriarch/leader of the band...hence the song title "Maybelle". (Extra trivia: one of Maybelle's daughters was June Carter, who married Johnny Cash and later made Reese Witherspoon Oscar-buzzworthy)
So, that said, what is it about? It's about a relationship that has aged a bit, and you begin to wonder about how constant your love truly is, about whether your love regrets the choices that have been made.
The original song was very clearly from a woman's point of view, so it's interesting that Ida took it and made it more universal. This could really be the song of anyone at all who has been in a long-term relationship.
Here, for the curious, are the original Carter Family lyrics from 1934:
Are You Tired Of Me My Darling
Are you tired of me my darling
Did you mean those words you said
That has made me yours forever
Since the day that we were wed
Tell me could you live life over
Could you make it otherwise
Are you tired of me my darling
Answer only with your eyes
Do you ever rue the springtime
Since we first each other met
How we spoke in warm affection
Words my heart can n'er forget
Do you think the bloom's departed
From the cheeks you thought so fair
Do you think I've grown cold hearted
Beneath the load of women's cares
This song is a retelling of the Carter Family song "Are You Tired Of Me My Darling?" with new music and lyrics. The Carter Family was a pioneering early group in the genre that would eventually become country music, and Maybelle Carter was a founding member and eventually the matriarch/leader of the band...hence the song title "Maybelle". (Extra trivia: one of Maybelle's daughters was June Carter, who married Johnny Cash and later made Reese Witherspoon Oscar-buzzworthy)
So, that said, what is it about? It's about a relationship that has aged a bit, and you begin to wonder about how constant your love truly is, about whether your love regrets the choices that have been made.
The original song was very clearly from a woman's point of view, so it's interesting that Ida took it and made it more universal. This could really be the song of anyone at all who has been in a long-term relationship.
Here, for the curious, are the original Carter Family lyrics from 1934:
Are You Tired Of Me My Darling
Are you tired of me my darling Did you mean those words you said That has made me yours forever Since the day that we were wed
Do you ever rue the springtime Since we first each other met How we spoke in warm affection Words my heart can n'er forget
Do you think the bloom's departed From the cheeks you thought so fair Do you think I've grown cold hearted Beneath the load of women's cares