Folk songs change. I listen to at least two versions of this with only passing confusion.
As a teenager, I had a fondness for stories that were set beyond either nuclear holocaust or some other reason for modern civilization going the way of the ancient Romans. This song reminds me of these stories.
The land is dead, and child asks an elder to repeat again his stories of a lost world he has never seen, intent on the memories of a fading history.
Folk songs change. I listen to at least two versions of this with only passing confusion.
As a teenager, I had a fondness for stories that were set beyond either nuclear holocaust or some other reason for modern civilization going the way of the ancient Romans. This song reminds me of these stories.
The land is dead, and child asks an elder to repeat again his stories of a lost world he has never seen, intent on the memories of a fading history.