From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #134 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, January 28 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 134 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Lyrics [Dave Blackburn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:09:28 -0800 From: Dave Blackburn Subject: Re: Lyrics Thanks for all the insight on this question everyone. I am persuaded that the word is "fall" and I see how it might be shorthand for a turn of phrase like "we fall into line" or "we fall for it" but it still strikes me as slightly clumsy for Joni. Does anyone else feel that? Dave On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:46 AM, Catherine McKay wrote: > Mark, that makes perfect sense to me. > > From: Mark > To: Richard Flynn ; 'Catherine McKay' ; jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com; 'Dave Blackburn' > Cc: 'JMDL' > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:12:08 PM > Subject: Re: Lyrics > > ... > > I think raising the drum sticks and crying out represents the fearsome power of the U.S. war machine and could also very well refer to the harsh treatment of people who joined together to protest the Viet Nam war. But I also think there is a reference to the drums that once led soldiers into battle. The fall, in that case, is the fall of men in battle. > > Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #134 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------