Hi Bob I would love to have the lyrics transcribed! Maybe post them to the list or something. I need to dig out the video that I have...
Peace Much Joni Jamie Zoob ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:38 PM Subject: For Love or Money, All I Want > <<Or is it because it's stuck in the end of a double live album that not that many people will have had or > heard... >> > > I think it's just forgotten about, Jamie, because she never recorded a studio version of it. Jericho would have suffered the same fate had she not brought it out for DJRD, it just seems so more fleshed out in its studio version. > > I think For Love or Money is a great song! My favorite lyrical passage: > > The wars of pride and property > The rebel Irish and the promised land Jew > Fighting behind his eyes and over seas > Wounded in action and no ceasefire in view > > The song seems to be a bit of twist on her usual "failed relationship" song in that it's from the guy's POV and he can't get over the girl. I wounder if she was projecting any of her old lovers onto the lead character? She does reference that the guy is a songwriter, or at least a poet: > > He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme > Describing what it is to lose > He's got some just for laughs > He's got some for love > That mainline to his blues > > Could the "mainline" be a play on words referencing "Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire", that is, a heroin addiction? > > <<has anyone else heard the original (well, the first draft) of All I Want?>> > > Yes, Jamie, but it's from her 1970 BBC "Pink Dress" concert. As yet is hasn't been included as part of the video trees. There are quite a few lyrical differences between this version and what would finally show on "Blue". If anyone is interested, I can transcribe them tonight. > > Bob > > NP: Beausoleil, "Valerie"
