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"But there are days enough when the love is racked and pinioned, Which nobody else knows better than we two do." and "But you know well enough that I am much more choosy. I want day-to-day to find myself with you.
With the cheek-to-cheek, the tooth and claw, The milk and honey and the bread and water, Dearest, I want everything to do with you."
Even after 26 years we two do.‘They squat in the cottages of our ancestors, making bloody pottery– we don’t care..’
the exasperated emphasis on ‘pottery’ makes it all the more delicious.
I agree, ‘POTTERY?’ spat out with with such disbelief seems to sum up the town/country divide of the song. Love it.
After this weekends show in Knutsford I was reminded of a beauty: ‘For he was shy, as Blacksmiths often are’. Throws up more questions than answers.
mcdonaldneal wrote:
After this weekends show in Knutsford I was reminded of a beauty: ‘For he was shy, as Blacksmiths often are’. Throws up more questions than answers.
Laurie Lee’s line originally, that one, I believe. Jake stayed very close to the original, which only increases my wonder at the beautiful job he made of this song.
I have a friend who likes Jake and has known a few blacksmiths (country estate upbringing), and he says that in his experience blacksmiths generally are shy.
"And in the potter’s shop, the potter’s wife upon the potter’s wheel
(Which was steadily continuing to spin, by the way,"Oh and on reading some of the others I was reminded that
"Elizabeth Jones and Lily O’Grady
And three or four more married ladies
Prefer to be tickled by the whiskery chins of bogey men."Has to come a very close second.
……..was from To Do With You…until I saw the bit on the BBC4 documentary where Jake, working as a roving reporter for ITV, went into a boutique to ask the girl assistant some questions. He explains how his mum used to buy his sisters "pullys" from the Co-Op, but nowadays a mum would go into a boutique. Then he asks her ; "What has this done for mums, pullys and Co-Ops?" The look on her face is priceless !! Play it again, it’s wonderful.
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