^ First time I´ve heard a Dan Fogelberg song, Trollheart - so thanks, I´m quite impressed !
Of course everyone knows Paul Simon, but in his quiet way, he took a lot of risks when he wrote the material for The Capeman. As well as looking sympathetically at a figure who was briefly demonized by white America, this song includes racial slurs and street language which seem very out of character for PS. It´s almost a cappella, and he piles in so many facts and figures that the melody is kind of left to hang; it´s only in the last couple of lines I really noticed that he was singing one at all.
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