Softly

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

I don't know how this question will sound but what does he mean by "Softly She Comes?"

Only other time I've heard that term in a song was the 1959 tune by the Fleetwoods called "Come Softly Darling."

[charlene]

Softly She Comes ... in the night..... She has gone (come) to him in the night, it's a furtive meeting, seemingly clandestine, she spends the night and then she then goes in the dawn.
Come and go...

[Martyn Miles]

Originally Posted by charlene

Softly She Comes ... in the night..... She has gone (come) to him in the night, it's a furtive meeting, seemingly clandestine, she spends the night and then she then goes in the dawn.
Come and go...

It has happened to some of us...

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

As a kid when I heard this song I invisioned instead of taking place in the house somewhere outside at night.

When he sings "Down the darken Hall" it should be obvious that he's inside but as a young child sometimes you don't always hear things right.

Anyway here's the original recording.

Gordon Lightfoot: Softly (1967) - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Now the YT police removed the original and all wh're stuck with is the remake.

That would including the remake of W&W.

Both versions of The Way I Feel and Crossroads.