--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" <steve.sundur@...> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1bHaUk1CM
Absolutely! > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Here's a change of pace. Many of us here believe in > > recincarnation. Many of these same people are into > > music. Are there songs you love that, to you, suggest > > that the songwriter captured in words and music > > pretty much *exactly* what life in a past era would > > have felt like, so much so that you suspect they might > > have been there personally? Like, does the song for > > you seem as if the artist is channeling a past > > incarnation? > > > > I can think of a few. One is Mark Knopfler's magnificent > > "Madame Geneva." The POV of the narrator of the ballad > > is remarkably the same as Mark's real-life POV; both sit > > in gin mills from time to time and get paid to write > > about what they see around them in the world. That said, > > I actually suspect that Mark may have been there in > > Madame Geneva's on a hanging day, and is not so much > > inventing it as remembering it in this song. But that > > could be because I was probably sitting at the bar > > with him. :-) > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QpALGgYiZI > > > > I'm a maker of ballads right pretty > > I write them right here in the street > > You can buy them all over the city > > yours for a penny a sheet > > I'm a word pecker out of the printers > > out of the dens of Gin Lane > > I'll write up a scene on a counter > > - confessions and sins in the main, boys > > confessions and sins in the main > > > > Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's > > keeping the demons at bay > > There's nothing like gin for drowning them in > > but they'll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging day > > > > They come rattling over the cobbles > > they sit on their coffins of black > > Some are struck dumb, some gabble > > top-heavy on brandy or sack > > The pews are all full of fine fellows > > and the hawker has set up her shop > > As they're turning them off at the gallows > > she'll be selling right under the drop, boys > > selling right under the drop > > > > Then you'll find me in Madame Geneva's > > keeping the demons at bay > > There's nothing like gin for drowning them in > > but they'll always be back on a hanging day, on a hanging day > > >
