From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #137 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 137 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Lyrics [Shari Eaton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:56:15 -0800 From: Shari Eaton Subject: Re: Lyrics I have always loved this song and 'We fall, oh my friend' has a hand in that love. It's unique, unexpected and guides the emotions really well. I'd be more curious to understand how you could possibly find it clumsy. On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Dave Blackburn wrote: > 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 #137 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------