tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1627042579450271362..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Joseph Ceravolo: Irish EntryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53054336585783432582016-01-24T09:22:39.523-08:002016-01-24T09:22:39.523-08:00Great song Tom, that Ian Campbell Folk Group perfo...Great song Tom, that Ian Campbell Folk Group performance brought some tears (must be those voices doing those harmonies, coupled to those words), Tony Papard's version all the more to the point (CND) -- those two black crows on the fence out here likely knowing just what's going on . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17487491687968128372016-01-23T20:59:40.126-08:002016-01-23T20:59:40.126-08:00Many thanks to all for all, through the ever more ...Many thanks to all for all, through the ever more haunting strains of it.<br /><br />As the elements beat down everywhere upon every one of us both individually and collectively, the wind continues to howl and the mountain of garbage and blight piles up outside the cottage... are they playing our song?<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxrY9h23Me0" rel="nofollow">Crow on the Cradle: Ian Campbell Folk Group, 1963</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXV5BRqcgE" rel="nofollow">Crow on the Cradle: performed by Tony Papard, from CND Songs, 2012</a><br /><br />"This was on the B side of a 45 single made to raise funds for CND by the Ian Campbell Folk Group. The A side being The Sun Is Burning. I played this side when my grandmother was present, and she said it would literally drive my mother mad it was so depressing". -- Tony Papard<br /><br />The Crow on the Cradle<br /><br />The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn,<br />Now is the time for a child to be born.<br />He'll laugh at the moon and he'll cry for the sun,<br />And if he's a boy he will carry a gun,<br /> Sang the crow on the cradle. <br /><br />And if it should be that this baby's a girl,<br />O never you mind if her hair doesn't curl.<br />With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,<br />And a bomber above her wherever she goes,<br /> Sang the crow on the cradle. <br /><br />The crow on the cradle, the black and the white,<br />O somebody's baby is born for a fight.<br />The crow on the cradle, the white and the black,<br />O somebody's baby is not coming back,<br /> Sang the crow on the cradle. <br /><br />Your mother and father, they'll sweat and they'll save;<br />To build you a coffin and dig you a grave.<br />Hushabye, little one, never you weep,<br />For we've got a toy that will put you to sleep,<br /> Sang the crow on the cradle. <br /><br />Bring me a gun and I'll shoot that bird dead,<br />That's what your mother and father once said.<br />The crow on the cradle, what shall we do?<br /> This is the thing that I leave up to you. <br /><br />-- Sydney Carter (1915-2004), c. 1962TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57443685816161073912016-01-23T20:46:52.903-08:002016-01-23T20:46:52.903-08:00Tom,
What a crow, what "three crows together...Tom,<br /><br />What a crow, what "three crows together / in the thunderous rain . . . by a lake in a cottage in Ireland in the rain," what photos to make all so real . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21287440438001599662016-01-23T11:56:58.476-08:002016-01-23T11:56:58.476-08:00once again Tom your post connects to so much that ...once again Tom your post connects to so much that is central to the history of my soul...Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22088250737403146542016-01-23T06:56:42.332-08:002016-01-23T06:56:42.332-08:00Joe's poem is a beauty & the photos take m...Joe's poem is a beauty & the photos take me away from the mountains of snow under which we are currently buried. Do you know this song? We used to do it in Celtic Thunder---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mqc8qHmDd8.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14186577911257082042016-01-23T03:34:17.210-08:002016-01-23T03:34:17.210-08:00Tom, have you seen Fukase's Ravens?Tom, have you seen Fukase's Ravens?billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43346122801451356872016-01-23T00:42:59.434-08:002016-01-23T00:42:59.434-08:00Wonderful images of rain.
Ceravolo works the imag...Wonderful images of rain.<br /><br />Ceravolo works the image through, all those frail repetitions, and you can feel it. The brokenness at the close hits hard. I'm still reeling.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com