Song Lyrics Appearing First as Poems

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:04 PM -0500 2/28/09, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 5:58 PM -0600 2/28/09, Paul wrote:
>>Anyone else remember Steve Allan on the Tonight Show reading lyrics as
>>classical poetry?  "Sh-boom" sticks in my head.
>>Phil Ochs did 'the Highwayman"
>
>And Joan Baez "So We'll Go No More A Rovin'"
>And Judy Collins "The Golden Apples of the Sun"
>
And to get out of our
American-folk-singer-covers-English-poem rut,
there's a wonderful setting by Leonard Cohen of
García Lorca's "Pequeño Vals Vienes" as "Take
This Waltz". Nary an American, a folk song, or an
English poet in earshot.

LH

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