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Originally posted by Marley:
a question about the song Shadows. Does anyone know the basis for the song, meaning, etc?
regards,
Marley
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Gord is very reticent aboot this song in the songbook booklet see :
http://www.rhino.com/features/liners/75802lin5.html
or:-
http://iycrmm.notlong.com
"I was running back the lyrics in my head, and I decided I don't really have anything more to say about it than is there in the song. Sorry"
Those who were lucky enough to attend a Lightfoot concert this year will no doubt have been impressed by his current spoken intro to the song....how he was playing around with the various ways of playing the "C" chord and "Shadows" sort of of wrote itself (or words to that effect IIRC)
John Fowles
It has certainly risen higher in my personal favo(u)rites of late