I love reading Peter Robinson's DCI Banks series. But it takes me longer to read as he is an avid music fan so I am always stopping to look up the song/artist to listen and learn more.
In Many Rivers to Cross he mentions going to a Richard Thompson concert and listing some of the songs.
I had to see what I could find out about the meaning of the song. I found an article that mentioned that Eleanor Shanley had a better version, as the song is meant for a woman to sing.
Oh she dressed in the dark And she whispered amen She was pretty in pink
Like a young girl again
Twenty years married And she never thought twice She sneaked out the door And walked into the night And silver wings carried her Over the sea From the west coast of Ireland
To West Tennessee
To be with her sweetheart,
Oh she left everything From Galway to Graceland to be with the king
She was humming Suspicion,
That's the song she liked best She had Elvis I Love You Tattooed on her breast
When they landed in Memphis,
Well, her heart beat so fast
She'd dreamed for so long, Now she'd see him at last She was down by his graveside
Day after day
Come closing time they Would pull her away Ah to be with her sweetheart, Oh she'd left everything From Galway to Graceland to be with the king
Ah, they came in their thousands
From the whole human race To pay their respects At his last resting place But blindly she knelt there And she told him her dreams And she thought that he answered Or that's how it seems Then they dragged her away It was handcuffs this time She said "my good man are you out of your mind?" Don't you know that we're married? See, I'm wearing his ring.
From Galway to Graceland to be with the king.
I come From Galway to Graceland to be with the king.
The first two will be the same, except we’ll work our way through the alphabet. The second can be a favorite image or activity from the week. The third will be different each time.
Letter V - I'm going to try to find cities/towns we've visited as the theme. I will exclude Canada and the US from this round.
I will keep a running list at the bottom of the Friday post.
May 2012 - Vienna Austria
Vienna (German: Wien, pronounced [viːn]) is the capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.8 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one-third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union. Today, it has the second largest number of German speakers after Berlin. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations and OPEC. Click here for a tasty morning visit.
Week's Favourite - snapped as we drove slowly along Queen St. E.
INCH - I thought this was going to be impossible but as soon as I typed the word I had a EUREKA (the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem) moment!
Inch (Irish: An Inse) is a town in County Clare, in Ireland. Situated on the scenic route from Ennis to Milltown Malbay the traveller will cross the village of Inch.
Tom the backroads traveller hosts FotoTunes July 2005 - Cleveland OH WOW it's been that long since we went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Must be time to go back.
John went to the US Open in Pittsburgh last week. He spent some time wandering downtown around the PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song. The song (chorus only) is traditionally sung during the middle of the seventh inning of a baseball game. Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words "home team" are replaced with the team name.
This, in turn, reminded me of our visit to Fenway Park in Boston.
"Sweet Caroline" has been played at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox, since at least 1997, and in the middle of the eighth inning at every game since 2002.
