No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest by June Tabor
“It is one of many favorite June songs but this wednesday I'll be seeing her. In concert. For the first time in my monstrously long life and of course it cost me a small fortune to get back to the country of my forefathers and the capital of said country is horrendously expensive and poor so there's this guilt but then there's this woman and there Ian and Huw and there's this woman's voice. Wish me a safe return to TIMJ (yes I've heard rumors you can find a wireless connection there but they have been proven wrong) won't you (will you, won't you, won't you, will you, join the dance... bizarrely came to mind thank you so much Charles)? TT”
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It is one of many favorite June songs but this wednesday I'll be seeing her. In concert. For the first time in my monstrously long life and of course it cost me a small fortune to get back to the country of my forefathers and the capital of said country is horrendously expensive and poor so there's this guilt but then there's this woman and there Ian and Huw and there's this woman's voice. Wish me a safe return to TIMJ (yes I've heard rumors you can find a wireless connection there but they have been proven wrong) won't you (will you, won't you, won't you, will you, join the dance... bizarrely came to mind thank you so much Charles)? TT
Sunday night mope.
Eric Bogle's anti-war message (“the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame. The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain.”) intact in June Tabor's interpretation of the song ruined by Joss Stone's abysmal screeching in the version sponsored by the Lockheed Martin war machine.
When all the trumpets and pomp and circumstance are done on Remembrance Sunday, this always makes me think.
Fuck wars, and fuck those who seek to profit by them either financially or politically.