Here we see that 3 wise men and all that jazz came after Mary chose to call the baby not anything plain like Jesus (a name some backwoods carpenter could offer), but an odd name of Saviour. I think that was the wish of the folk author to see Mary's role more spiritual.
I am quite fond of this early Joan, it was sang so catching - beyond compare. Shame we never heard it in Soviet Union as long as it lasted... this song was too religious, you see.
In her 1st LP Joan Baez sang the lyrics as: http://vi-phi.narod.ru/Baez/1959_Folksingers_Round_Harvard_Square/06_Virgin_Mary.htm
Here we see that 3 wise men and all that jazz came after Mary chose to call the baby not anything plain like Jesus (a name some backwoods carpenter could offer), but an odd name of Saviour. I think that was the wish of the folk author to see Mary's role more spiritual.
I am quite fond of this early Joan, it was sang so catching - beyond compare. Shame we never heard it in Soviet Union as long as it lasted... this song was too religious, you see.