There seems to be some military imagery in this song:
'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes'
''til I heard the distant sound of drums
Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
There seems to be some military imagery in this song:
'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes'
''til I heard the distant sound of drums
Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme
that I burned for six days in the sun
'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme
that I burned for six days in the sun
'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
My interpretation was that the patch of Thyme was grown...
My interpretation was that the patch of Thyme was grown and burnt to create rescue signals and the 'distant sound of drums' is a group of soldiers.
this song is about being a boy. a young one. no deeper meaning than enjoying your own thought as a boy, which is lovely.
I think it's about a soldier stranded somewhere.
I think it's about a soldier stranded somewhere.
There seems to be some military imagery in this song: 'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes' ''til I heard the distant sound of drums Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
There seems to be some military imagery in this song: 'You know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes' ''til I heard the distant sound of drums Oh the queen had come and the King had died'
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
Which suggests to me a soldier possibly in the navy 'a boy at sea'.
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme that I burned for six days in the sun 'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
'Underneath the pine grew a patch of thyme that I burned for six days in the sun 'til I heard the distant sound of drums'
My interpretation was that the patch of Thyme was grown...
My interpretation was that the patch of Thyme was grown and burnt to create rescue signals and the 'distant sound of drums' is a group of soldiers.