Comments on: Girl from the North Country http://sherrychandler.com/2008/10/07/girl-from-the-north-country/ "On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.” — W.S. Merwin Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sherry http://sherrychandler.com/2008/10/07/girl-from-the-north-country/comment-page-1/#comment-50966 sherry Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:01:53 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=4466#comment-50966 Well you know what they say, Tommy. Good poets borrow, great poets steal. "If you see her say hello" has always been one of my favorite Dylan ballads. As <i>Blood on the Tracks</i> is one of my favorite albums. It's why I don't like to buy music by the tune. I like the concept of an album. Well you know what they say, Tommy. Good poets borrow, great poets steal.

“If you see her say hello” has always been one of my favorite Dylan ballads. As Blood on the Tracks is one of my favorite albums. It’s why I don’t like to buy music by the tune. I like the concept of an album.

]]> By: Tommy http://sherrychandler.com/2008/10/07/girl-from-the-north-country/comment-page-1/#comment-50965 Tommy Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:54:07 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=4466#comment-50965 Also: If you see her, say hello She might be in Tangiers She left here last early spring She's living there I hear Say for me that I'm all right Though things get kind of slow She might think that I've forgotten her Don't tell her it isn't so Also:

If you see her, say hello
She might be in Tangiers
She left here last early spring
She’s living there I hear

Say for me that I’m all right
Though things get kind of slow
She might think that I’ve forgotten her
Don’t tell her it isn’t so

]]> By: Tommy http://sherrychandler.com/2008/10/07/girl-from-the-north-country/comment-page-1/#comment-50961 Tommy Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:15:23 +0000 http://sherrychandler.com/?p=4466#comment-50961 In much the same way that we have several songs about a young woman who's drowned by her sister in a fight over a man, or the various fates of Arthur MacBride and his cousin, it seems to me that "Girl from the North Country" and "Scarborough Fair" descend from the same source. They do sound very similar, especially around "remember me to one who lives there, for she once was a true love of mine." It's just that this song is full of nostalgia and wist, and "Scarborough Fair" is full of "I won't take her back until she does seven impossible things before breakfast." In much the same way that we have several songs about a young woman who’s drowned by her sister in a fight over a man, or the various fates of Arthur MacBride and his cousin, it seems to me that “Girl from the North Country” and “Scarborough Fair” descend from the same source. They do sound very similar, especially around “remember me to one who lives there, for she once was a true love of mine.” It’s just that this song is full of nostalgia and wist, and “Scarborough Fair” is full of “I won’t take her back until she does seven impossible things before breakfast.”

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