(strange, this)
You held up a stage coach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
Saw you hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me
And I'm doing the same
Saw you hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuV3ElYHYe4&NR=1
The singing is amateurish beyond calculation. Yet -- judge not lest ye be judged -- suffer little children to come unto Me ! Suddenly it is as if she is your very own daughter -- your heart goes out.
[Update June 2013] The conspiracy of gray-faced deatheaters now blocks this video, with this note: "Not available in your country." What -- North Korea? No, America.
[To view it, use an anonymizer, like TOR.]
-- OK no worries, here's another post of the same thing ("I'm Sticking With You", by the Velvet Underground).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5je_eK0V1w
And this -- as simple as can be, in singing, tune, and instrumentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqt0vtYT5s&NR=1
("Juno" soundtrack; sung by Kimya Dawson.)
Complication comes in only later in the song, when it becomes a round. And yet.... this canon-form we learn by kindergarten, with "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". Elementary in each part, yet as a whole, giving even young children a glimpse of the infinite.
The singing is amateurish beyond calculation. Yet -- judge not lest ye be judged -- suffer little children to come unto Me ! Suddenly it is as if she is your very own daughter -- your heart goes out.
[Update June 2013] The conspiracy of gray-faced deatheaters now blocks this video, with this note: "Not available in your country." What -- North Korea? No, America.
[To view it, use an anonymizer, like TOR.]
-- OK no worries, here's another post of the same thing ("I'm Sticking With You", by the Velvet Underground).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5je_eK0V1w
~ ~ ~
And this -- as simple as can be, in singing, tune, and instrumentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqt0vtYT5s&NR=1
("Juno" soundtrack; sung by Kimya Dawson.)
Complication comes in only later in the song, when it becomes a round. And yet.... this canon-form we learn by kindergarten, with "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". Elementary in each part, yet as a whole, giving even young children a glimpse of the infinite.
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