Saturday, September 11, 2010
Farewell
I am really posting this video for the second of the three songs played by Pete Seeger and Judy Collins, Bob Dylan's "Farewell," which is really his adaptation of the traditional song "The Leaving of Liverpool." Judy Collins's recorded version of the song is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, but, alas, it's not on Youtube.
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What a treat! Thank you, thank you....I don't ever find these things myself, so it's a gift to hear these two beautiful voices singing lovely songs. My husband will enjoy it, too. And I'll have to look for that recording of Judy Collins that you mention.
GretchenJoanna, it's on an album called Judy Collins 3/4. Just wait till you hear it -- it's beyond beautiful.
That's a great clip. What a privilege to hear a couple of the greats just sharing.
I'll stand up for Judy Collin's a capella (sp?) version of "Bread and Roses" as being the most beautiful and meaningful song ever sung about women's lives, though.
Forgive me if you already know this, Otepoti, but "Bread and Roses" was the song sung by the striking workers in the famous textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 (I assume that few Americans know about this, let alone Kiwis, unless they are red-diaper babies).
Now I'm not sure if it's accurate to say that this song was sung by the strikers. It probably wasn't, in fact. But the strike was called the Bread and Roses Strike because the striking millgirls held banners that said "We Want Bread, and Roses Too."
I did know that "As we go marching, marching, In the beauty of the year" actually referred to a real strike. I thought it was in Great Britain, though.
I think you'd be surprised how many Kiwis know that song - it was very popular here. We do tend to know our modern Labour movement history, too (it used to be a compulsory part of our fifth-form history syllabus), and we worry a lot about societal fairness. We're practically all "red-diaper" (heh!) babies.
That's pretty impressive, O!
Thank you, Pentimento. I enjoyed that very much.
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