From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #138 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 138 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2013 #134 [Mary Morris ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:39:28 -0800 From: Mary Morris Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2013 #134 Nope, never struck me as clumsy, Dave. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:13:06 -0500 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #134 > > > 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 > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #138 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------