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johnfowles · 02-16-2005, 08:25 PM

quote:Originally posted by superiorsings1:
I always thought Guinevere was a coal miner's daughter whose father died in an explosion in the mine and his body was not recovered, and her mother says to her "dear daughter I pray..."
(I used to be superiorsings but someone else must be using that name so I added the 1)
There was a review of Endless Wire the album in Playboy reproduced by wayne francis in a Newsgroup posting at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b7845ce2c7aa19 which includes
"Sweet Guinevere is a tragic tale told in elliptical style, as if
Lightfoot wanted to conceal the meaning"
Whilst replying I have just found some notes that I made from the May 1981 Royal Albert Hall,London concert.
Gord introduced the song Endless Wire by saying something like (presumably in reference to the Golden Goose)
"I had a sailboat that I sold to a guy in Germany who was going to make a movie in a Norwegian fjord...I had to order 5000 feet of electrical wiring
John Fowles
What do you call a song sung in an automobile?
A cartoon.

02-16-2005, 08:25 PM	#11
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by superiorsings1: I always thought Guinevere was a coal miner's daughter whose father died in an explosion in the mine and his body was not recovered, and her mother says to her "dear daughter I pray..." (I used to be superiorsings but someone else must be using that name so I added the 1) There was a review of Endless Wire the album in Playboy reproduced by wayne francis in a Newsgroup posting at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...b7845ce2c7aa19 which includes "Sweet Guinevere is a tragic tale told in elliptical style, as if Lightfoot wanted to conceal the meaning" Whilst replying I have just found some notes that I made from the May 1981 Royal Albert Hall,London concert. Gord introduced the song Endless Wire by saying something like (presumably in reference to the Golden Goose) "I had a sailboat that I sold to a guy in Germany who was going to make a movie in a Norwegian fjord...I had to order 5000 feet of electrical wiring John Fowles What do you call a song sung in an automobile? A cartoon.