Stop Awhile: Recent Episodes
Steve Walsh
Do you ever really listen to the lyrics of a song? Well let’s take the music away and see if we can figure out what the artist is trying to say.
Peter Sarstedt wrote this when busking in Copenhagen. It’s not about anyone in particular and has a simple message. It doesn’t matter how many airs or graces you have in your life, you can take the girl out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of the girl.
Peter Sarstedt wrote this song when busking in Copenhagen. It’s not about anyone in particular and has a simple message.
It doesn’t matter how many airs and graces you have in life, you can take the girl out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of the girl. Someone will know the real you.
This is one of the songs Dylan wrote about Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s film muse. She was a trust fund girl with mental health issues and craved fame. She had a fortune when she arrived in New York in 1964 age 21. After her 15 minutes of fame she was discarded by Warhol. 6 years later she was dead.
Dylan did have a brief affair with her but in this song he seems bitter. He never liked Warhol or The Factory believing he was the legit artist whereas Warhol courted the media with shock.
He presents it as she used to think she was so cool, laughed at her many suiters and taken in by the mystery tramp as she stares into the vacuum of his eyes. Now she’s homeless and having to scrounge for her next meal. I don’t believe it got that bad for her as she went home after problems with drugs.
Great song but don’t kick someone when they’re down.
Mary Coughlan is a brilliant Irish vocalist and one you need to completely give over on a very comfortable leather sofa in front of a log fire with a nice bottle of wine. She comes from the fantastic blues/jazz with influences as billie Holliday, Edith Piaf, Peggy Lee.
She wrote this song back in the 1980’s and talks hypocrisy of the state, church and people.
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