The fiddler has nothing to do with the reaper, nothing. Fiddler's green is old fisherman's folklore of heaven. Its been carried down for generations and thus has expanded beyond just fishing folklore. The fiddler is the greeter of heaven(the green), and despite how long he's been doing this the death of a child, the seperation of child from parent is still a saddening experience for him. The rest of the song is just simply singing about death. So I mean if you really wanted to simplify it, the song is about Saint Peter, there I said it.
The album art would like to have a word with you. Clearly Death is on a field playing a fiddle to two small children sitting around a fire. Whether or not "the Fiddler's Green" has anything to do with Death is irrelevant; the song is about Death taking a boy before his time. St. Peter, in Christian mythology, is not the figure that takes souls. He is there to let them in.
The album art would like to have a word with you. Clearly Death is on a field playing a fiddle to two small children sitting around a fire. Whether or not "the Fiddler's Green" has anything to do with Death is irrelevant; the song is about Death taking a boy before his time. St. Peter, in Christian mythology, is not the figure that takes souls. He is there to let them in.
The fiddler has nothing to do with the reaper, nothing. Fiddler's green is old fisherman's folklore of heaven. Its been carried down for generations and thus has expanded beyond just fishing folklore. The fiddler is the greeter of heaven(the green), and despite how long he's been doing this the death of a child, the seperation of child from parent is still a saddening experience for him. The rest of the song is just simply singing about death. So I mean if you really wanted to simplify it, the song is about Saint Peter, there I said it.
The album art would like to have a word with you. Clearly Death is on a field playing a fiddle to two small children sitting around a fire. Whether or not "the Fiddler's Green" has anything to do with Death is irrelevant; the song is about Death taking a boy before his time. St. Peter, in Christian mythology, is not the figure that takes souls. He is there to let them in.
The album art would like to have a word with you. Clearly Death is on a field playing a fiddle to two small children sitting around a fire. Whether or not "the Fiddler's Green" has anything to do with Death is irrelevant; the song is about Death taking a boy before his time. St. Peter, in Christian mythology, is not the figure that takes souls. He is there to let them in.