flatbaroque Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Nice old traditional ballad based on a poem by Charles Badger Clark. Covered by many. Some may know it. I'm wearing the latest in urban cowboy couture for your amusement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cbPcnAl4f0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Good'n! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Lovely...thanks, John. 👍🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Hey- you clean up nice. . . dig the couture, and fits the song perfectly. How cool- a rendering of something someone wrote ~ 100 years ago. Thanks for bringing it to us. (there's that guitar again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted July 1, 2017 Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 Thanks Old Cowboy.You've probably got a real cowboy hat not like my Aussie bush hat doing a Johnny Ringo impersonation. Anne great to hear from you. 62B I first heard this on Dylan's much maligned Self Portrait album.Any song covered by Dylan, Tom Waits and Emmylou Harris must have a bit going for it.There are a few lyric variations around and I massaged it to suit.I think I'll google the original poem now to see the exact words - if it exists somewhere online. Cheers edit..I just looked up the original poem.It's called "A Border Affair". Words are the same except for this verse which I left out and most covers leave out.Probably because it contains a "bluntness" more common to earlier times. "Never seen her since that night, I kain't cross the Line, you know. She was Mex and I was white; Like as not it's better so. Yet I've always sort of missed her Since that last wild night I kissed her, Left her heart and lost my own -- "Adios, mi corazon!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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