Wednesday 8 June 2011
beautiful?
when blogging on the dylan site this song was described to me as beautiful by johanna well i find it hard to find beauty in what has to be one of the greatest songs of longing ever written but also a song that describes one of the greatest blights of the irish that being drink and alcohol abuse and the scar of emigration that once again has come to our shores it is at best one of the saddest songs i think known especially in the last verse as the singer comes to realise he will never again see his beloved homeland and all that there is to look forward to is his impending death and the loneliness of alcohol abuse
Thursday 2 June 2011
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