coincidence maybe: I wrote String of Sorrow recently, which has a deep debt to W S Merwin and black preaching:
[chorus] O string of sorrow sing for nobody yesterday and tomorrow sing short or long O string of sorrow sing for nobody yesterday and tomorrow anybody's song [verse] what others may play you sound on your own now grieving, now gay invisible one root of a part that nobody planned fingered by heart and an unseen hand [chorus] [verse] gutcord spanning beginning and end pass understanding enemy, friend the joys that bear you no one can explain and the tears that hear you no one can restrain [chorus] this tune comes off simpler than I usually write: delta-bluesy, slow 3 beats. similarity to the Joni lyric? Tom R ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
