Get a little perspective folks. This is not the best song ever written or recorded. The year was 1969. This was a ragtag group of kids trying to drag ancient traditional music into the twentieth century. When everyone else was trying to be the Beatles or the Stones, they were trying to do something different that they believed in.
In 1969 Sandy Denny was 22 years old, Richard Thompson was 20!
Tell me all the mind-boggling things you did when you were twenty years old?
Actually it was written by Bob Dylan and is an awesome song in his bootleg , old piano recording. Love Sandy Denny and FC but their arrangement doesn't really work that well, check out the original version.
I like the spirit of this song, BUT ... it is easier letting go and dreaming your life away if you're a multi multi millionair who will never have to worry about money for a single second all his life. A bit harder if you have to work 9 to 5 no matter what you want.
Maybe it doesn't have to be a literal interpretation…just keeping an approach of observer and stressing about everything imposed by others instead of buying into all the pressures can be part of anyone's philosophy.
I heard this for the first time on RP, what a treasure. Now I'm listening to her other works. So much rich music I've been introduced to by you guys. Thank you!
Ummmmmmm....so what? Other artistes did many things before the Beatles. But the Beatles, when they did it, did it better!
over and over and over….
Get a little perspective folks. This is not the best song ever written or recorded. The year was 1969. This was a ragtag group of kids trying to drag ancient traditional music into the twentieth century. When everyone else was trying to be the Beatles or the Stones, they were trying to do something different that they believed in.
In 1969 Sandy Denny was 22 years old, Richard Thompson was 20!
Tell me all the mind-boggling things you did when you were twenty years old?
Actually it was written by Bob Dylan and is an awesome song in his bootleg , old piano recording. Love Sandy Denny and FC but their arrangement doesn't really work that well, check out the original version.
I like the spirit of this song, BUT ... it is easier letting go and dreaming your life away if you're a multi multi millionair who will never have to worry about money for a single second all his life. A bit harder if you have to work 9 to 5 no matter what you want.
Maybe it doesn't have to be a literal interpretation…just keeping an approach of observer and stressing about everything imposed by others instead of buying into all the pressures can be part of anyone's philosophy.
The amazing thing about his music is how well it holds up. Fifty years later, it still works. How much music has that kind of staying power?
50 years later? How 'bout almost 70!
And Tom was quoting a line from Tom Hobbes "nasty brutish and short"
Actually was co-written by Waits and Kathleen Brennan forTom Waits' 1999 album Mule Variations