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It sounds like another love song and in a way it is but it is set in a folklore setting, idk much about the lore he based it in so i'll let him explain it. Quote:
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...here to hear...
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^ Well, he has a very strange explanation for that song, though for me the resulting song doesn't convey much mystery. Apart from the unusual line about lemur skin, the lyrics don't stray very far from a conventional love song really. The acoustic version sounds quite nice though.
(PS: no, haven't seen the imagine documentary) Bobbie Gentry came up with a great story song in Ode To Billie Joe, and although the events and characters are fictitious, all the place references are real. The story of the narrator and Billie Joe McCallister seems to intrigue everyone who hears it: What was actually going on "up on Choctaw Ridge"? To this day, Bobbie Gentry has not revealed the secret, preferring to claim that she doesn't know; great songwriter, lousy eye-witness! The story inspired a movie that offers one interpretation, and there's also a blog for the curious which suggests other motives too:- The Mystery of Ode to Billie Joe
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I sleep in your hat
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Mini-story behind Joni Mitchell's Woodstock.
Lovely song about the music festival of the same name. The irony is that she was nowhere near Woodstock because she was contractually obligated to appear on the Dick Cavett Show. |
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^ Haha, yeah, she cheated a bit there, with her "by the time I got to Woodstock". Apparently she was inspired by then boyfriend Graham Nash's account of events, so maybe that's permissible.
![]() The Blimp is a great track which was recorded under strange, unplanned circumstances. After writing a "spontaneous poem" the Captain rang up Frank Zappa and had Jeff Cotton recite the poem while he (CB) played sax in the background. Says Zappa, "I was in the studio mixing some other tapes...the band that' s actually playing on The Blimp is The Mothers of Invention. The vocal was recorded by telephone...I taped it in the studio and recorded it onto the piece of tape that I had up at the time, which was my track. The piece is called Charles Ives. We used to play it on the '68-9 tour." So that explains the short FZ exchanges front and back of this extraordinary song, though nothing quite explains the magic of Jeff Cotton's impassioned one-take delivery. Spoiler for The Blimp lyrics:
If you don't know the song, you should really open the lyrics spoiler before you click clack here:-
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Well that was anticlimactic.
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Here's a song with a true story behind it :- https://soundcloud.com/tim-radford/the-old-baby-farmer
And the story is explained in detail here:- Broadside Ballads Songs | Murder Ballads | Paul Slade - Journalist In fact The Old Baby Farmer is just one song, one story, of many Victorian "Broadside" ballads that Paul Slade has put together under The Gallows Ballad Project, as you will see if you explore the second link at all.
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