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Thursday 11 June 2009

Beeswing

I fell in love with this song the 1st time I heard it many years ago. It's a contemporary folk classic. Richard Thompson's guitar playing is outstanding - as always - and his lyrics are superb: 'Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing'... 'There was animal in her eyes'... 'You might be lord of half the world, you'll not own me as well'. Just take a listen.

4 comments:

Rachel Fox said...

It is a lovely song. I've heard lots of covers of it too...it brings out the best in people.
x

Alan Sloman said...

Glorious.

Thank you.

gleaner said...

Wow, I love it, so warming to the soul. I've never heard it before so had to listen to it twice.

Raph G. Neckmann said...

Beautiful song, SW. I'd not heard it before. Thank you.